花儿为什么红

故事发生在车水马龙的繁华都市纽约，富人们西装革履出席着杯觥交错的盛大宴会，穷人们在黑暗的阴影里沉浸在酒精和毒品所制造的短暂天堂里醉生梦死。不幸的过去让海伦（吉蒂·温 Kitty Winn 饰）的内心里充满了伤痛与迷惘，她想逃离痛苦的生活，却始终找不到正确的途径。一次偶然中，海伦遇见了名叫鲍比（阿尔·帕西诺 Al Pacino 饰）的小混混，同是天涯沦落人，境遇相似的两人渐渐地走到了一起。随着时间的推移，海伦发现鲍比其实是一个无可救药的瘾君子，海伦沦陷了。毒海无涯，海伦对于毒品的需求变得越来越强烈，无法自控的她甚至选择了出卖身体以换取毒资，知道了这一切的鲍比陷入了深深的痛苦之中。

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.

以女作家杏林子（刘侠）遭有精神疾病的印佣伤害致死的意外为改编背景。一位沦落为色情按摩店的泰佣，目睹印佣从纯真变堕落，但自己染重病，想救她也救不了。

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