扎根于社会、精品政治之上不可明言的故事,精品用客观的画面让观者自己去构建残酷的现实,以平淡的铺陈步步引向深刻的隐喻。叙事、画面,处处可见这位传奇导演对阿巴斯和马克马尔巴夫等追随者的影响。
扎根于社会、精品政治之上不可明言的故事,精品用客观的画面让观者自己去构建残酷的现实,以平淡的铺陈步步引向深刻的隐喻。叙事、画面,处处可见这位传奇导演对阿巴斯和马克马尔巴夫等追随者的影响。
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回复 :蒙面英雄佐罗(安东尼•霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰)为了阻止西班牙总督蒙特罗滥杀无辜,突然从天而降,劫走了准备行刑的犯人,从而与蒙特罗结下深仇。随后,蒙特罗派部队跟踪了佐罗。在一片混战中,佐罗的妻子被杀死,还在襁褓中的女儿被虐走,佐罗也被投入了监牢。一晃眼二十年过去了,为了让自己的事业后继有人,佐罗带上面具逃出了监狱。蒙特罗这时仍然在作恶,他计划买下加利福尼亚的所有权。佐罗找到了年轻的盗贼马瑞塔(安东尼奥•班德拉斯 Antonio Banderas 饰),将毕生所学都传授了给他,希望马瑞塔能够阻止蒙特罗的阴谋。马瑞塔继承了佐罗的面具,然而当他找到蒙特罗时,发现拦在他面前的凶狠的西班牙公主(凯瑟琳•泽塔-琼斯 Catherine Zeta-Jones 饰)竟然就是当年老佐罗的女儿!
回复 :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.