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.
居然这也成每年的固定番了。比起去年我觉得今年没啥区别吧。除搞笑点调侃都是除咱们之外其他国家那点事儿，疫情还是主角，人类还不长记性。直接等明年底Death to 2022好了
剑，最要远离的真的是女人
细心地感受理解神的爱，才会遇到那个他。
究极大舔狗 加 老实接盘侠 除了看个美人面容以外 简直令人折磨。
很好，讽得淋漓尽致。不过纪录片的时间节点导致片里提到了《007无暇赴死》是影市强心针，却没提到仅用11天就成为年冠的《蜘蛛侠英雄无归》，这才是一整年下来让全球影迷最欢腾的电影事件。
不是美国衰落了药丸了，是人类社会就是一直这么拉跨…
三星半，跟去年一样，依然扯到模糊了跟现实的边界……
大家看这纪录片吧，比各台的跨年演唱会喜庆。。。。
年终总结，新的一年，真的是没有吸取到一点点教训。。。
我觉得男主再这样发展下去就是典型的“代理型孟乔森综合症”
谁可以这样爱我？只有透过上帝的爱才可以爱到这种程度吧！
是不是因为现实中很难存在这样的爱情，所以才是“谁可以这样爱我”？
美好的爱情故事，男主完全的爱，像上帝爱我们一样
"My real name is Sarah."
一见钟情的男人，不在乎女人的过往，正因为男人的爱，也拯救了女人，让女人在生活中再次遇到困难时，做出了正确的选择，两人最终收获爱情，喜欢电影的剧情，配乐，真的很棒！
没有2020那么好笑了 expectation太高... 喜欢Gemma真的太呆妹了 那个culture commentator是不是影射Fran Lebowitz lol
跟何西阿之后三次出走，但是完全不一样的性质；第一次是因为对“宫殿”那种稳定生活的留恋和对新生活的不确定；第二次，当她开始接受新的生活，生命中开始恢复就像旧的伤口开始愈合还很脆弱，保罗的出现刺激到她的伤口，让她又回到不被人尊重的感觉，甚至觉得有点不配；第三次已经有了爱的能力，觉得自己不能给何西阿生个孩子，同时觉得米莉亚姆年轻充满活力应该比自己更配得上何西阿所以才离家出走，是为了成全；直到最后完全被医治可以坦然的爱与被爱！
怎么说呢，好似美好的爱情实际扯淡。影片想拍得唯美，但剧情不现实。不管是男人女人，在爱情中都还是有底线的…
本来想打开豆瓣再寻找一些可能我没有get到的细节，但是被满屏的“劝妓从良”“福音故事”“男主出轨”“玛丽苏”“舔狗”给恶心到了。你们现在道德的高地上俯视女主，你们站在道德的盆地摸黑男主，你们现在科学与理性的高度鄙视信仰，你们高尚又完美。如果是八岁的你们丧母被恋童癖侵犯，八岁被逼良为娼，被伤害，被欺骗，你们一定能带着坚定的唯物主义伦理，出淤泥而不染的相信人性，相信靠努力就一定能拯救自己悲惨的出身。你们真的，太完美了，圣人如你们，拯救全宇宙。
祈祷在各个人物的身上发挥了很大的功效，迈克尔的祷告也好，安琪儿的祷告也好，都经历了一定的时间才实现。所以祈祷后，我们要学会等待，也要做好手头上的事，到了时候，祂必然成就。
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