非诚勿扰第50期

黄猷和儿子晖士（王东侠 饰）在村里嚣张跋扈，企图侵占他们族人黄华仁的财产。与此同时，村民白金济（何非光 饰）也一直觊觎黄家的财产，他与表妹邬质华合谋，用美人计诱使黄华仁心生娶质华为妾的念头，而冷落了自己的妻子国芬（邬丽珠 饰）。有一天，黄猷和儿子闯入黄华仁的家，逼迫他借款21万。国芬，一名拳师的女儿，本想夺回借据，但夜幕降临，她无法辨认借据的真伪，最终被黄猷夺走。国芬急切地催促黄华仁向乡间会提起诉讼，但华仁却整日沉迷在贤良淑德的质华身上，忽视了国芬的苦衷。国芬终于气急败坏，回娘家寻求帮助。黄华仁一次次遭受黄猷和儿子的欺凌，最终无法忍受。他前去乡间会寻求公正，但却发现投诉无果。回到家后，他做了一个梦，梦中妻子国芬帮助他制服了黄猷父子。这个梦让他终于醒悟，意识到自己以前太过软弱。

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.

亚当斯庄园里住着一个典型哥特式家庭。戈梅斯（劳尔·朱力亚 Raul Julia饰）和妻子（安杰丽卡·休斯顿 Anjelica Huston饰）终年生活在这里，到处弥漫阴郁腐败的气息。二人感情如蜜，有一双喜欢玩谋杀游戏的儿女。戈梅斯的心里，却埋藏着一个伤疤。那就是他曾经和 哥哥费斯特失和，费斯特已经失踪25年，戈梅特仍然放不下对哥哥的惦念。一心要夺取亚当斯庄园和这里的财富的母亲有一个儿子戈登（克里斯托弗·洛伊德 Christopher Lloyd饰），容貌跟费斯特相向。于是，一场阴谋上演了，她教唆戈登佯装费斯特潜入亚当斯庄园，利用戈梅斯的兄弟情一步一步地夺取庄园。果然，戈登的到来不仅使戈梅斯大为惊喜，他渐渐融入这里的家庭生活，戈梅斯一家也随之陷入危险的泥沼中。当他们被夺走家产，凄苦沦落时，事情又有了峰回路转的变化。

于观（张国立饰）、杨重（葛优饰）和马青（梁天饰）三人在北京开了一家“替人排忧、替人解难、替人受过”的三T公司，专门替人解难、解闷、受过。他们碰到了形形色色的怪人和怪事，啼笑皆非，但都给应付了过去，公司业务兴隆，生意火爆。一个要与女友分手又怕看女友掉泪的人找于观求助，于 观受托约见刘美萍（马晓晴饰），十分含蓄地讲出问题并不断责备自己，泪流满面的刘美萍破涕为笑。后来，法院送来传票，勒令三T公司停业整顿，他们三人掏尽了所有的钱打发上门讨饭的顾客亲属，突然，马青说想要打人。大街上，他们肆意冲撞地些郁郁寡欢的中年人，可这些人只顾赶路，毫无反应。