铁拳男人

　　朱丽叶凯特·温丝莱特 Kate Winslet 饰和波林梅兰妮·林斯基 Melanie Lynskey 饰相识于一所校风严谨的女子学校中一见如故的两人之间很快就建立起了真挚而热烈的友情在两人共有的日记本上记录着名为波洛夫尼亚的虚构故事故事的主角是查尔斯国王和黛博拉王后
　　朱丽叶的肺结核病让她和波林被迫分离在此期间她们以查尔斯和黛博拉的身份互相通信随着时间的推移朱丽叶的父母察觉了女儿和波林之间超乎寻常的感情他们开始着手拆散这对如胶似漆的好友父母的举动让朱丽叶和波林十分痛苦处于敏感年纪的两人在冲动之下终于犯下了无法挽回的罪孽

　　智素李甄 饰是一名天真无邪的十岁少女有一个活泼可爱的弟弟智石洪恩泽 饰在爸爸和妈妈正贤姜惠贞 饰的精心呵护下姐弟两快乐而又茁壮的成长着然而某一日幸福的日子突然画下了句点爸爸离家出走正贤带着两个孩子失去了唯一能够遮风避雨的归宿
　　智素一时间无 法接受这巨大的打击她想尽一切办法只希望能够找到爸爸找回曾经拥有的生活情急之下她想到了一个损招那就是绑架老奶奶金惠子 饰的狗以此为筹码获得巨额赎金年幼的少女是如此的天真她精心策划的绑票计划能否顺利实施呢她又能否最终实现自己的梦想呢

　　To penetrate a gang exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers smuggled into California and leaving no live witnesses, Mexican federal agent Pablo Rodriguez poses as an ignorant bracero, while his American counterpart Jack Bearnes works from outside Soon, both are in deadly danger from the ringleader, sinister rancher Owen Parkson, and find night on the farm to be full of shadowy filmnoir menace

　　Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley#39;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 eg, 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 quot;I#39;m a mechanicquot;, 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 quot;You need a woman not a girlquot; is hilarious real But Hartley can#39;t leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue overandover becomes frustratingly quot;artyquot; and annoying until again it becomes hilarious What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film like kids in a perpetual quot;am notquot;/quot;are tooquot; argument
　　Hartley#39;s weaves all of a small neighborhood#39;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 quot;unbelievable truthquot; 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