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　　Shia LaBeouf将与David Ayer再度合作《收税人》。
　　电影讲述男主角大卫·奎瓦斯(David Cuevas)，他是一个看重家庭的男人，但工作却是为洛城黑帮高层收税的收账人。他与搭档Creeper穿梭于城市之间收账，用各种方法逼人们掏钱，而欠账的则会受到残忍的报复。然而，一位旧日敌人的归来让奎瓦斯所爱的一切都陷入危险之中。

　　艾莉丝（西尔莎·罗南 Saoirse Ronan 饰）离开了故乡，离开了母亲和姐姐，前往美国寻找更多的机会和更广阔的未来。在神父弗雷德（吉姆·布劳德本特 Jim Broadbent 饰）的帮助下，艾莉丝成为了一名售货员，出色的表现和不懈的努力让她成功获得了主管弗蒂尼（杰西卡·派尔 Jessica Paré 饰）的认可和肯定。之后，艾莉丝结识了名为托尼（艾莫里·科恩 Emory Cohen 饰）男孩，两人之间碰擦出了爱情的火花。
　　一场意外让艾莉丝重回故乡，很快，母亲的种种举动使她察觉，母亲希望自己留在这里，留在她的身边。在母亲的介绍之下，艾莉丝结识了善良的吉姆（多姆纳尔·格里森 Domhnall Gleeson 饰），并且得到了一个很好的工作机会，站在人生的十字路口前，艾莉丝会做出怎样的选择？

　　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.

　　1970年代初期，各种各样的思潮撞击着这个脆弱的年代。而影片的主人翁吉尔斯就生活在这一片慌乱和杂乱之中。在不同思潮的影响下，吉尔斯积极参与着各种政治运动，他热爱摄影和绘画。虽然他的朋友指责他，说他政治形态不够坚决，但是吉尔斯还是我行我素地艰难的活着。可是，在一系列关于爱情、政治方向、意识形态的挫折和选择之后，吉尔斯和他的那群朋友不得不做出果断的选择，他们要在乱世中找准自己的位置。