洛奇5

　　这是一个热得不能再热的夏天。科幻协会的7位好朋友：河本（瑛太饰）、曾我（与座嘉秋饰）、遙（上野樹里饰）等人逗留在学校里玩耍。某日，他们在房间的一角突然发现了一个凭空冒出的时光机！
　　心绪激荡的众人开始讨论起他们的时光之旅，他们一致决定要回到昨天拿回不小心弄坏的空调遥控器——这天气，没空调可不好活啊。
　　穿越时空的人并不是游刃有余的，肆意更改过去可能会引起不良后果，“严重的话，一切都会消失。”研究员穗积（佐々木蔵之介饰）下出如此判断。大家开始恐慌起来，为了一个小小的遥控器，他们竟会因此消失吗？

　　年迈的摇滚明星约翰·奥尔曼（小哈里·康尼克 饰）的专辑销量不佳，热门歌曲人气也逐渐下降。于是他决定暂停事业，重拾活力，并搬到了地中海田园诗般的塞浦路斯岛上一座孤立在悬崖边的房屋中。然而，他追求低调生活的愿望却被频繁的访客打乱。后来，当一段旧情重新燃起时，他又面临着更加复杂的意外。

　　夫妻的史都耀（李国煌）和钟离春（杨雁雁）在茨厂街经营福建面，时常面对殖民地警察及帮会的勒索和欺压。都耀误打误撞之下结识了一个神秘的美女高手小菊（童冰玉），更被指为明朝建文帝的子孙。而深藏不露的离春和陈坤（黄明志）也在这时显露了高强的武功。伴随而来的是各门各派的虎视眈眈，誓夺连他自己都不知道存在的藏宝图。顿时茨厂街风起云涌，高手云集。到底都耀能不能解开自己的身世之谜，并搭救一直默默保护他的老婆呢？

　　本该温馨美好的情人节，四名漂亮的女人却收到了令人不寒而栗的古怪卡片，接着古怪恐怖的事情开始在她们中间发生。原来，这一切起因于她们上学时曾无情的嘲笑过个一个性格内向、古怪的可怜男生。现金一转数年过去了，当年高中舞会上的“丑小鸭”已经变成了“天鹅”，决定回来在情人节当日对她们实施最无情的报复。到底谁才是元凶，这四个漂亮女人能否逃过此劫？围绕在她们周围的男士人人皆有可疑……

　　Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.
　　Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)
　　As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.
　　The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).
　　Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.