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在对上世纪的家庭录像素材进行影像考古时，为了得到一位外国人在我的家乡杭州所拍摄影像的授权，我踏上了通过网络搜寻找到他联系方式的旅程。

1890年代，两名灯塔管理员试图在他们生活在偏僻而神秘的新英格兰岛上时保持理智。随着雾角的摇摆声响彻空中，沉默寡言的前伐木工人埃弗莱姆·温斯洛和两鬓斑白的灯塔管理员托马斯·韦克踏上了十九世纪末新英格兰沿岸一个僻静且了无生气的岛屿。 在接下来四周艰苦的工作和不利的条件下 ，俩沉默寡言男人除了彼此以外，没有其他人的陪伴，被迫忍受，仇怨与日俱增。 然后，在恶劣的预兆中，狂怒而无休的暴风使看守员受困于本就不宜居的火山岩，助长了长期的野性饥饿；极度痛苦；使人躁狂的隔绝以及恐怖的酒后幻觉。现在，精神错乱得令人窒息。 还可以从无形的牢狱中逃脱吗？

影片以中、朝两国授予的抗美援朝特级英雄黄继光为原型，展示了黄继光如何参军并在军队中得到锻炼，不断提高自己的意志力和战场技巧，最终成为了一名优秀的战士。在上甘岭战役中，为了完成上级安排的任务，为了整个部队的胜利，面对着地堡中敌人的机枪，黄继光牺牲自己，英勇堵枪眼，为战友争取到了短暂的时间，从而消灭了敌人。

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.