北京爱情故事37

承接《潜行狙击》电视剧结局，梁笑棠Laughing（谢天华饰）谋杀苏星柏（黄宗泽饰）罪名成立，判处无期徒刑；梁笑棠在狱中结识大学教授霍天任（吴镇宇饰），教授外表斯文，与世无争，但却能以心理陷阱收服穷凶极恶的 “巨川”（林雪饰）。其实教授是高智商的犯罪心理学家，擅用冷读法，可以洞悉对方心理活动和秘密，于无声中掌控他人。神秘女子（文咏珊饰）到狱中探望梁笑棠，其隶属比警队更高层次的保安局，原来，梁笑棠入狱是再次担当卧底角色。当日，杀苏星柏是另有其人，保安局副局长（麦长青饰）怀疑整件事跟潜藏警队中的黑警团伙有关，所以借势令梁笑棠入狱展开调查。梁笑棠亦步亦趋主动接触狱中目标人物前毒品调查科警长“大切”（杜汶泽饰）在将要取得进展时，发现教授亦同时以心理治疗法，令“大切”多次精神错乱，直至向“大切”发出了死亡暗示。一场敌友难分、正义与邪恶的生死对决在实力极不均衡的态势下火爆展开了。

大洙（姜东元 饰）曾经是一名前途无量的运动员，美娜（宋慧乔 饰）亦可能成为红极一时的偶像歌手，然而，一个意外降临的孩子让两个尚未成年的年青人毅然决定放弃未来和梦想，他们结为了夫妻，并且早早肩负上了为人父母的巨大责任与重担。然而，令两人没有想到的是，他们的孩子雅林竟然患上了罕见的先天性早衰症，乐观的大洙和善良的美娜并没有因此而放弃这个可怜的孩子，正相反，在两人的悉心照料下，亚雅林渐渐长大。一晃眼十七年过去，尽管生命中充满了病痛，但雅林依旧成为了一个开朗的，拥有8岁外貌的80岁“少年”。一次偶然中，大洙一家人的事迹被电视台制作成为了新闻报导，一下子将三人推到了舆论的风口浪尖。

《东京流浪者》(Tokyo Drifter)拍摄于1966年，第二年，铃木清顺就被日活以“令人看不懂”为由炒了鱿鱼。其实，《东京流浪者》比铃木的前作都规矩多了，应该是缘于电影肉食者们重压之下的收敛。但影片中铃木所坚守的特色并没有改变，他依然打造出了一个光影怪异悬念迭起的黑帮世界。于简单剧情间的张弛有度收放自如，更使人得见了导演的功力。影片的娱乐元素用到极致：俊男美女，激烈枪战，四季风光，流行歌曲……，铃木没有表现出艺术片导演与生俱来的清高姿态，相反他娱乐为首的宗旨却从未被丢弃，只是前提他必须以自己的方式讲述。

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.