《明知故犯》年下兄弟

还是中学生的Chul-soo（郑雄仁 饰）和 Ae-lang（蔡敏瑞 饰）初尝禁果，就结下了果实。还是孩子的Chul-soo在不知情的情况下，于一年后在学校意外被收到了一个男婴，而这就是他的孩子。起初接受不了这个事实的Chul-soo想要找Ae-lang问个明白，可是她却已一走了之。无奈之下，Chul-soo开始了和儿子Cho-won（俞承豪 饰）的父子生活，从起初的艰辛到后来的血浓于水，父子二人于平淡中快乐的生活着。九年过去，Chul-soo成为了一家夜总会的主持人，而Cho-won更可谓是在夜总会长大，俨然一个小大人。这时，从外国回来的Ae-lang在意外的情况下，和父子二人见面。一切似乎又回到九年前，戛然而止的曾经的恋人因为误会和时间被分开，而再度的重逢能否将这段感情挽回，而这得靠他们古灵精怪的儿子Cho-won来帮忙。

象人（约翰?赫特 John Hurt 饰）是一个天生的畸形症患者，他的脸长得就像大象的脸，因此而得名。象人一直被利欲昏心的马戏团老板利用，带到世界各地去巡回演出，受尽了非人的虐待。象人所经受的遭遇社会名流们都会感到不可思议，然而乐观坚强的象人却承担了下来。直到有一次，象人遇上了年轻的英国医生（安东尼?霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰），出于怜悯和医生的操守，他与马戏团老板签订了“领养”协议后，将象人带回了医院作研究。在医院里，象人重新感受到了人间的温暖，而医生也在和象人的交往中结下了深深的友谊，他已经舍不得这位“上帝的弃儿”。但利欲昏心的马戏团老板带人又将象人抢了回去，象人的新生活是否就此终结？

影片改编自阿兰·格里恩出版于2001年的小说《黑暗领域》，主演布莱德利·库珀曾获得2011年全球最性感男人称号。潦倒颓废的艾迪·莫莱（布莱德利·库珀 Bradley Cooper 饰）是一个丢掉了工作，缺乏灵感的作家。许久不联系的前小舅子给他一种正处在试验阶段的药物--NZT。服用一次之后艾迪发现自己精力充沛，思维清晰，行动敏捷，甚至能在瞬间把一些平时不易留意的细节和信息重新组合和整理并得出推论。等他再一次去找小舅子却发现他已被人谋杀，屋里一片狼藉，紧跟着是一群杀手的追杀。死里逃生的艾迪终于发现了这款名为NZT的新药物能使人发挥大脑100%的能力。借助NZT，艾迪重获灵感并进入上流社会，但大获成功之余也有致命的作用：身体不适和失控的情绪。而此时埃迪已不能离开这种药，这使他进入了一个黑暗领域，而杀手也在暗处监视他……

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.