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　　相恋四周年纪念日当晚，舒敏离奇失踪，案发现场一片狼藉，男友向泽被警方列为头号嫌疑人。神秘密室，幽幽海墅，一段错综复杂的迷宗魅影，一袭精心策划的爱的骗局。旧事.新恨，“相杀相爱”。一首关乎爱情.亲情.友情的冰与火之歌。

　　Pierre Lachenay（让·德赛利 Jean Desailly 饰)是一个已婚的作家和杂志主编，在一次出差时，他被美丽的空姐 Nicole（弗朗索瓦·朵列 Françoise Dorléac 饰）所吸引。碰巧的是，两人竟在同一间酒店见面了。Pierre邀请Ni cole出去喝东西，两人聊了一夜，不久，两人便爱得无法自拔。Pierre要回巴黎了，Nicole在他的本子上留了电话号码。回到家的Pierre瞒着妻子Franca (Nelly Benedetti 饰)偷偷和Nicole联系。他更主动申请出差去Reims，只为了能带上Nicole，暂时远离他的妻子和女儿。在Reims，Pierre为了讲座忙得不可开交，和Nicole闹了矛盾，两人提前离开了Reims。碰巧Pierre的妻子打电话到Reims，发现Pierre已经离开，开始怀疑Pierre。后来，Nicole厌倦了这段关系，离开了Pierre。而另一边，Franca则准备和Pierre离婚。直到Franca发现了Pierre和Nicole的亲密合照，愤怒和嫉妒促使她拿出猎枪，走到街上去寻找Pierre，以了结这一切......

电影讲述了三个故事。在阿尔及尔，穆拉德是一位富有的房地产开发商，他或多或少对自己的命运感到满意，但他不知道如何让身边的人开心：莱拉，他困惑的前妻；拉什，他沮丧的第二任妻子；那齐姆，他的儿子。穆拉德的司机贾比尔已经同意将艾查和他的父亲从阿尔及尔开车送到比斯克拉，在那里，这个年轻的女孩将以文明的方式结婚。贾比尔正好是艾查的情人。在Setif，达曼，一个神经病学家，希望能和Radia结婚。但他期望的晋升似乎被永远推迟了。当一个女人指控他做了严重的坏事时，他陷入了双重麻烦。

　　一队盗贼使用一种药物，使他们能够与未来的自己交换意识，以窃取明天的秘密。

　　肥胖邋遢的左翼导演迈克•马隆（Kevin P. Farley 饰）致力于揭露美国政治、军事、经济和医疗等方面的阴暗面，他所拍摄的纪录片更在国际上获奖（影射迈克•摩尔）。他为自己的成就沾沾自喜，美国国内也有一批狂热的粉丝对他疯狂追捧。有些飘飘然的马隆更提议取消7月4日的独立日，他甚至大张旗鼓搞起了宣传活动。
　　这时候，三个美国历史上重要人物的鬼魂：肯尼迪（Chriss Anglin 饰）、华盛顿（Jon Voight 饰）和巴顿（Kelsey Grammer 饰）先后拜访了马隆。他们一次次将马隆带入假定的历史中，向其展示纵容绝对民主和恐怖主义可能产生的各种后果。曾经坚定的左翼分子终于开始动摇了……

　　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.