曾经的承诺

藤本研二在区役所都市开发科工作，为了开发巨型商场，他需要拆除一家舞厅。然而在拆除的过程中，他被各种神秘力量所阻挡。有谣言说这个地方被诅咒了，藤本带领的队伍为此请来了驱魔师，但是没人能找到解决方法。

光怪陆离的国际大都会，日本东京。灯影暧昧的酒吧内，人们窃声交谈，笑语欢歌。酒吧一隅，穿着打扮与周遭格格不入的明子（高梨临 饰）面带焦虑。她是一名女大学生，为了学费而在声色场所出卖笑靥。此时此刻她正与多疑的男友（加濑亮 饰）在电话里纠缠。是日祖母突然来访，但明子犹豫不决是否该去车站看看老人。本就心情烦躁，加上店长（点点 饰）的工作安排更让她情绪失控。夜幕降临，失意的明子最终来至客人的住地。那是一位84岁的退休大学教授（奥野匡 饰），也许因为明子与亡妻容貌相似才让老人将女孩召唤至此。疲惫的女孩无暇享受老教授精心准备的美酒佳肴，简单交谈后便沉沉睡去，一夜无话。次日，教授驱车送女孩回校，心与心的交流仿佛仍未停止……

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.

距上一次的冒险已经过去11个年头，转眼间安迪（约翰·莫里斯 John Morris 配音）变成了17岁的阳光男孩。这年夏天，安迪即将开始大学生活，他必须将自己的房间收拾整齐留给妹妹。此前，伍迪（汤姆·汉克斯 Tom Hanks 配音）与巴斯光年（蒂姆·艾伦 Tim Allen 配音）等玩具一直期待安迪再和他们玩耍，但是随着岁月的流逝，他们被冷落在箱子里很久了。安迪十分珍惜这些童年的玩伴，于是准备将他们收在阁楼。谁曾想，妈妈却把玩具们当作废物扔到街道上。玩具们误解了安迪，于是愤然出走，宁可被捐赠到阳光之家幼儿园。伍迪尽力劝解大家，却收效甚微，只得独自黯然离开。巴斯光年他们原本以为将重新回到往昔的快乐时光，不料却陷入一场阴谋之中……