张茵
发表于6分钟前回复 :1977年,搅扰中国人民整整十个年头的文化大革命业已结束。人民的生活重新步上正轨,在这百业待兴之际,中断了多年的高考也得以恢复。东北某农场内,生活着一群来自四面八方、身份各异的知青。他们将最好的年华献给了这片黑土地,却不知自己的明天将在何方。恢复高考的消息传到这里,让 年轻人们的心再次躁动起来。适逢农场负责人老迟(孙海英 饰)正在酝酿修路计划,只要在建设中取得良好表现就有机会受推荐去念大学。知青们为此蠢蠢欲动,而另有打算的老迟却把机会给了成分不好的女孩陈琼(周显欣 饰)。原来陈琼和老迟的爱将潘志友(王学兵 饰)是一对情侣,他打算借此将二人拆散,让潘扎根于此。然而充满着理想的年轻人是会紧紧抓住这个难得的机遇,还是随波逐流接受命运的安排?
马浚伟
发表于1分钟前回复 :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.