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当地时间2月7日，第55届美国职业橄榄球大联盟（NFL）年度总决赛——超级碗在佛罗里达州坦帕市打响，坦帕湾海盗主场迎战堪萨斯酋长。

这部纪录片讲述的是一名穿着一身红袍的僧人到法国马赛“旅行”的故事。开头第一个镜头是一名垂垂老矣的先生躺在那里，摄像机在他布满皱纹的脸上定格，这一个长镜头持续了约有六分钟之久，不仅如此，全片都充斥了大量蔡明亮式长镜头，每一个场景都由不同的方式和角度来表述这名僧人极度缓慢的祈祷行走的过程。从里昂街头人潮汹涌的咖啡馆，走到一名在里昂居住的中国人的中国风十足的房间的窗口前；从地铁站入口楼梯下仰拍僧人下楼梯的过程，到在里昂一个广场通过偌大的反射镜面倒看僧人和人群的一种无关的交流。里昂街头的人群便在这样无心的纪录之下闯入镜头，与这名僧人发生某种不具倾向性的互动。或是观察或是凝视或是敬畏，更多的是匆匆而过。在电影的最后一幕，屏幕上显出了四行小字，意思是万物皆空，皆是幻影。这也是在全片没有任何配乐语言前提下的唯一文字。整个放映厅鸦雀无声，直到字幕停灯亮起才响起了掌声。记者采访了几名刚观影结束的观众，西班牙男生用“太棒了”来形容，他说不知为何明明没有音乐也没有人说话却让他觉得宁静而感动。来自伦敦的一男一女分别都认为这是他们看过非常震撼的纪录片之一，一定会把这个推荐给他们的朋友们。

Rick（张国荣饰）是个顶级射击手，自第一次参加IPSC实战枪击比赛起，已连获数届冠军，Rick的拿手好戏是double tap，即在最短时间内打出两枪，弹孔在同一点上。Rick还是个改良枪支的专家，经他改良后，枪的性能可发挥到最高点。苗志舜督查（方中信饰）同样是个射击好手，这一次，两人在IPSC比赛中各显身手，不相上下。附加赛中，一名炒股失败的警察突然精神失常，持枪威胁人群，危急关头，Rick果断地将其一枪击毙。枪杀他人给Rick带来了严重的心理负担，睡不着觉、头疼，甚至产生幻觉等症状让他寝食难安，而更可怖的是，心魔已经产生，他竟从杀人中获得了无与伦比的快感，任凭他如何努力摆脱，似乎依旧徒然……

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.