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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.

本美术片为布偶动画片。美丽的孔雀仙子的到来吸引了诸多小动物，小兔子由于生病，只能卧在床上。孔雀仙子将瀑布变成一面镜子后，大伙都很佩服她的本领，蓝孔雀、红孔雀以及小红雀更想拜她为师，有心收徒的孔雀仙子要它们好好打扮一番晚上再来，最漂亮的那一个将是她的徒弟。在蓝红雀和红孔雀精心打扮时，善良的小孔雀却由于帮助其它小动物几乎拔光了自己的翎毛，而由于帮助小兔子找寻治病草药，它也没能准时出现在比赛现场。大伙都为它悬起一颗心。

影片讲述在洛杉矶的一个夜晚，一个年轻的司机(兰登伯格饰)载着两个年轻漂亮的女人，奔赴5个不同的派对。在他发现她们并不是先前她们所声称的那样，他陷入到怀疑人生之中。

简介1960年代的一部真正“失落”的电影。它以半自传体的形式描述了一位瘾君子疾病与健康交替中的旅行。故事在现实世界景象与主人公在纽约查巴克的成长经历的梦境之间跳来跳去。影片中演员很多，包括有反文化的偶像Allen Ginsberg(艾伦 金斯堡)和William S Burroughs(威廉 巴勒斯)等等.我是拉塞尔·哈维克，为了记录我的酒精依赖症，开始写这个日记。――康拉德 鲁克斯 (Conrad Rooks)跟着他的思绪奔跑，在他的幻念中触摸女性的滑润，在她蛇一般的蠕动中将诗篇留在她的花蕾上，她的唇齿间流淌着欲望，她的腰肢在我的介入中不由自主地抖动，丰满的山峦上，有着诱人的天堂――――OSAMA KAVKALU查巴克、查巴克，神圣的流水之地，哈威克童年记忆中的印第安人的死亡之所，在祭祀的鼓点里，我听到血液沸腾的声音，祭祀的魔力中总是有着药物的力量。叙述往生不是为了摆脱。确定过去是证明存在，片中Ravi Shanker弹奏着迷幻的西塔琴，平和的目光里有着超然物外的力量，西方找到了印度的音乐，却把他的精神导向遗失在太平洋，那些摇头晃脑的嬉皮士，可否知晓普济众生的佛陀愿望。60年代的纽约铺天盖地的是披头士的唱片广告，进入主流的他们有着温和的模样，只有枪声的发言才会打破他们的平静，吸食和戒毒的过程必将经过苦痛的炼狱，震破耳膜的枪声，让我直面逃离死亡的过程。从此地到彼岸，只要一颗药，白昼我们生活与此，夜里我们又在哪儿找寻慰籍和天堂。在通往未来的冰冷道路上,亲爱的年轻人,拥有的是LSD,不能拥有的,是未来.有时候我想,我们是不是不再象以前那样理解世界,而世界,会不会因为我们的改变而改变?对抗消失的年代,LSD的世外桃源年代,爱与和平的年代......我很明白我已经不在那么看世界了,我没有LSD,逃避对我来说也不是对抗的方式,垮掉的,不是年代,只是人----真正的垮掉,也许是现在吧.这可以说是一部手法先锋的电影,对于幻觉的表现就算在今天看来也有足够的冲击力.而且当摄影师将镜头对准自己的时候,那个年代的精神和气质才在一瞬间强大到了穿越时间,直抵当下我们的内心----所谓精神指引,体制或者监禁,禅,性或代表性的,存在,回归,探索,逃避,潜意识,......我们要的,曾经也没有什么不同.建议对60年代感兴趣的朋友一看,可以看出后来影片在精神上的继承.