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　　一个还未曾恋爱过的同性恋剧作家盖百列（Christian Campbell 克里辛•坎贝尔 饰），自从和室友瑞奇一起住以后，就烦恼不断。瑞奇和女友朱迪有着频繁的性生活，搞得盖百列几乎夜夜都要躲到外面有家不能回。这晚，又被赶出家门的盖百列跑到了同性恋酒吧去喝闷酒，就在这一晚，他遇到了go-go boy——马克(John Paul Pitoc 约翰•保罗•皮托克饰)。两人一见钟情，决定来一晚一夜情，可惜，他们没有地方。
　　于是，他们沿着街头行走，一次又一次，他们的计划总是被各种各样的事情打扰，笑话连连。但是，两人也随着接触的时间增长，慢慢熟悉了对方，一段爱情就这样慢慢滋长。

　　河南省某公社小吴庄生产队，在夏粮获得好收成后，趁墒抢种，掀起了新的生产高潮。队里的饲养员刘自得，在大忙季节以借牲口拉饲料为名，偷用队里的大红马给自己磨面，并与邻队小商贩徐富贵合伙做生意，卖熟食赚钱。刘自得自发思想严重，终日幻想：“来年盖三间新瓦房”。当社员们批评他不该占用大红马耽误秋种时，他却依仗自己有喂牲口的技术，以交鞭子要挟生产队。刘自得的亲家、共产党员、老贫农吴广兴在大队长的支持和全体社员的积极拥护下，接过鞭子，挑起重担。吴广兴缺乏喂牲口经验，但他虚心向有经验的老农、饲养员学习。为了医好由于刘自得加套磨面累病了的大红马，他日夜守在饲养室，千方百计精心护理病马。他听说病马爱吃咸的，他就拿家里的高粱去换盐，并且为了多换些盐，他把老伴最心爱的老母鸡拿出去换成盐。为了能让病马尽快好，他把自己吃的饭也给病马吃了。吴广兴的老伴吴大娘，怕得罪刘自得影响儿女亲事，责怪吴广兴不该接这工作。吴广兴对老伴耐心帮助，并用自己的实际行动教育她。吴大娘思想上的疙瘩终于解开了，决心和吴广兴一起把饲养工作做好。刘自得想利用儿女亲家的私情借牲口给自己磨面，遭到吴广兴的拒绝。而后，他又以代替何太看牲口为借口，偷将队里的牲口牵回家磨面。事情暴露后，队长和吴广兴对他进行了严厉的批评。刘自得不但不接受批评，检查自己的错误思想，反而说吴广兴“偷料喂猪”，要他交代。吴广兴对刘自得的诬陷和无理取闹，毫不惧怕。后来，刘自得的女儿爱勤说明了事情真相，同时，共青团小组长冬梅又揭发了刘自得做生意的事实。对此，刘自得还没有认识自己的错误思想，在徐富贵的怂恿下，又答应再干一回，结果，徐富贵对大红马打了一冷鞭，使大红马受惊几乎落驹。这时，刘才感到问题严重，惊慌失措。吴广兴抓住时机进一步对刘进行帮助和批评，指出了这一系列错误事实，并严厉指出这种思想的危害性。至此，刘自得才认识到自己的错误，决心丢掉个人打算，跟着大家走集体富裕的道路。两年后，小吴庄生产队的大牲畜在吴广兴的精心饲养下，已是膘肥马壮。吴广兴受到全体社员的爱戴，刘自得也有了进步。

 15岁的以色列小男孩莫塞斯（Pierre Boulanger 饰）和父亲（Pierre Boulanger 饰）住在巴黎蓝色大道一幢贫穷脏乱的公寓中。母亲（Isabelle Renauld 饰）离家出走，父亲整天沉迷于书本，还编造出一个并不存在的优秀的哥哥打击莫塞斯。本该享受童年快乐的小男孩压抑阴郁，在附近的流莺献出了自己的第一次。 莫塞斯去附近的土耳其穆斯林亚伯拉罕先生（Omar Shariff 饰）的杂货店里偷盗，被亚伯拉罕发现。和蔼的老人原谅了眼前这个小男孩，并亲切地向他传授知识，一老一少从此展开一段弥足珍贵的忘年交……

　　当鸟儿用羽翼去实现梦想，翱翔在我们永远无法凭借自身企及的天空，人类又该赋予他们怎样的赞叹呢？
　　“鸟的迁徙是一个关于承诺的故事，一种对于回归的承诺。”雅克·贝汉以这样一句话带我们踏上了鸟与梦飞行之旅。毫无疑问，[迁徙的鸟]直接界定了世界顶级纪录片“获取真实”的标准——前后共600多人参与拍摄，历时3年多、耗资4000多万美元，景地遍及全球50多个国家和地区，记录胶片长达460多公里。这部动用了17个世界上最优秀的飞行员和两个科学考察队的电影甫一出世，就引起轰动。短短三个星期内就有250多万法国人为它走进影院，飞越1200公里的大天鹅对生命的坚持，在漫天风沙中追寻出路的沙丘鹤、在冰天雪地下与海鸦对抗到底的企鹅……尽管当中也有失败气馁，也有悬崖边的木头木脑，也有来自人类贪欲的窥视。
　　除了简单的说明，整部影片不再有言语。本片的主角是憨态可掬，形态各异的鸟。他们带我们飞过大海，飞过雪原，飞过高山；他们用振动的羽翼向我们诠释飞翔，诠释执着，诠释温情，诠释生命。

　　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.