天天有喜第一部

20 世纪 80 年代初，霹雳可卡因泛滥成灾，像海啸一样席卷了美国的市中心贫民区，所到之处满目疮痍。几十年之后，人们仍然能够深切地感受到这场灾难对人民生活、家庭和社区造成的破坏性影响。《快克年代：可卡因、贪腐与阴谋》不仅审视了毒品对个人造成的破坏，还探讨了这场危机的神秘起源，以及由此导致的黑人和棕色人种不断被边缘化的问题，他们深受美国监狱和医保系统所困。

影片根据丹尼尔·詹姆斯·布朗的同名畅销小说改编，讲述1936年，华盛顿大学几个普通家庭成长的男生组建了一支赛艇队，他们一路过关斩将，在比赛中接连击败哈佛大学和耶鲁大学，还击败了东道主德国最强赛艇队，最终斩获奥运会金牌。

胡格（杰森·罗巴兹 Jason Robards 饰）遭到了信赖的朋友塔格里（L·Q·琼斯 L.Q. Jones 饰）和布温（斯特罗瑟·马丁 Strother Martin 饰）的背叛，身无分文险些丧命。在一片荒漠之中，胡格意外的发现了一处水源，于是，他打起了卖水的主意。牧师约书亚（大卫·沃纳 David Warner 饰）指责胡格不应该将公共资源据为己有，于是胡格前往附近的小镇，将这片地买了下来，紧接着，他又凭借着三寸不烂之舌说服了当地的银行家投资兴建旅店。与此同时，胡格邂逅了被小镇上的居民居住出镇的妓女西堤（斯黛拉·斯蒂文斯 Stella Stevens 饰），胡格收留了她，两人之间产生了真挚的感情。

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.