涅磐
发表于3分钟前回复 :克莱德·谢尔顿(格莱德·巴特勒 Gerard Butler 饰)是居住在费城某小镇的一名研发人员,他有着美丽的妻子和可爱的女儿,生活幸福美满。但这一切都被突如其来的灾难所摧毁。某晚,两个暴徒闯入他的家中,妻子和女儿都受到残害。然而虽然证据确凿,但由于司法程序的迂腐和尼克·瑞斯(杰米·福克斯 Jamie Foxx 饰)助理执行官的堕落,最终让首犯克拉伦斯·多比(克里斯蒂安·斯多特 Christian Stolte 饰)因证据不足只得到10年徒刑。本以为一切归于沉寂,但10年后当年未了的风波再起。怀着巨大仇恨的克莱德开始筹划展开报复,先是干掉了当年的从犯阿米,接着他很快找到了邪恶无耻的多比,并对其进行残酷的折磨与虐杀。克莱德的仇恨得到巨大的宣泄,但是他的复仇还未就此停止。他所针对的不只是那两个暴徒,而是整个腐朽堕落的司法系统……
薛凯琪
发表于4分钟前回复 :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.