困局：温蒂·威廉姆斯怎么了

　　开场是一个赌局。对赌双方是解珍、解宝兄弟和当地大佬毛仲义。其实，憨头憨脑的哥哥解珍只是压脚助阵，狡猾嗜赌的弟弟解宝才是主角。解宝以一块上好的和田玉作赌注，这孤注一掷却输赢未卜…… 开场很简短，故事到此转入过去进行时。 顾大嫂正让解珍等人痛打老和。顾大嫂开赌局兼放高利贷，解珍给她看场子。过路客老和赌光了盘缠，本想赖账，捱不过痛打，从身上摸出一块玉来，号称是珍稀的和田玉。顾大嫂半信半疑，暂且把玉收了，限令老和天黑之前拿钱来赎。

　　从未被劫的银行，三千万无记认钞票，引爆连环盗计。一群以梅雷亚（巴勃罗·施瑞博尔 饰）为首的高智罪犯，手法高超、火力强横、而且沉迷打劫；纵使犯案累累，却甚少破绽，令警方束手无策。一次押款车劫案后，他们的党羽唐尼（奥谢拉·杰克逊 饰）被辣手神探尼克（杰拉德·巴特勒 饰）识破，更从他身上知道匪帮下一个目标，是攻破从未遇劫的洛杉矶联邦储备银行，从中盗取三千万即将销毁的旧钞！于是尼克布下天罗地网，想趁机把他们一网成擒。然而，魔高一丈；梅雷亚以声东击西之法，引开警方注意。尼克错失擒获他们的良机，唯有尾随追击，双方展开连场枪战。虽然最终截获贼匪，但赃款竟全数不翼而飞！局中有局，究竟谁是取得巨款的幕后赢家？

　　新年伊始，作为市重点扶贫对象的梨花村迎来了新一任的扶贫工作组。带队的李渠是市委宣传部副部长，此次主动请缨到梨花村驻村扶贫，李渠立下了军令状。
　　梨花村全村三百多户、千把口子人，人均年收入还不到两千元，只能勉强温饱。
　　位置偏僻，交通闭塞，人多地少，无特色资源，村民文化素质偏低……换言之，梨花村就是“一穷二白三不靠”的典型贫困山区。
　　如何带领梨花村的乡亲们脱贫致富，是摆在李渠和他的扶贫小组面前的一个难题……

　　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.

　　黑帮老大乔·卡伯特（劳伦斯·蒂尔尼 饰）和他的儿子“好家伙”艾迪（克里斯·佩恩 饰）召集了六名强盗，准备到珠宝店抢劫一批天然钻石。这六个人彼此各不相识，甚至连对方的姓名都无从得知。乔为了保持机密，以颜色作为代号分别给六人起名为白先生(哈维·凯特尔 饰)、橙先生（蒂姆·罗思 饰）、金先生（迈克尔·马德森 饰）、粉先生（史蒂夫·布斯塞米 饰）、棕先生和蓝先生，并规定他们之间不能透露任何私事。
　　抢劫时，六人中了警察的埋伏，蓝先生和棕先生当场死亡。白先生带着身受重伤的橙先生回到预定的聚集地——一个仓库。一会儿，粉先生、“好家伙”艾迪和金先生也来到这里，并活捉了一名警察。几人回忆案发时的情景，得出结论，六人中必定有人向警察告密。为了揪出告密者，大家审问拷打那个警察，仍然无法得知事实真相。本就互不了解的几个人，开始互相猜忌，事情的发展完全偏离了预设的轨道。