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　　一场在丹麦地方富绅海吉豪宅中举行的周末家庭聚会是为了庆祝他六十岁大寿而筹办的他的儿子与媳妇女友与男友还有几位亲友齐聚一堂为他庆生不过原来该是融洽的热闹的晚宴却笼罩着诡异的气氛仿佛海吉两周前自杀身亡的女儿阴魂犹在岂知早逝女孩的双胞兄弟击杯起身发言控诉父亲乱伦并谋杀亲生女儿引爆了席间的争议对立而在此状况下这群人不得不采取先发制人的手段……

　　天使戴米爾為愛情變成了凡人與瑪麗亞結婚生了女兒朵瑞娜開了一家披薩店與家人過著幸福快樂的日子
　　另一位與戴米爾一起的天使卡西爾這回與一名女天使拉斐爾一起傾聽人類的心聲卡西爾覺得人類似乎很少思索到生命的本質每日忙忙碌碌卻不知真正的目的何在於是卡西爾漸漸升起了想幫助人類的慾望
　　卡西爾看見名叫瑞莎的女孩不小心從高樓墜下卡西爾大叫就在瞬間卡西爾正巧救了女孩但也變成了凡人但上帝送他的一副盔甲很快就被人以障眼法的騙術 騙走甚至被警察誤為歹徒而抓入看守所所幸戴米爾來保釋他卡西爾第一次嚐到人間美食咖啡乾爽的衣服但沒多久又被引誘喝了白蘭地於是逐漸陷入自 我麻醉的泥淖中甚至為了喝酒還以槍搶了小商店
　　卡西爾還記得戰爭時期一名叫安東的小孩隨父親逃到美國雖然成為走私商人但還不忘回來找他 失散的姊姊漢娜卡西爾有心助安東‧貝克爾走回正途遂藉一次搶劫中認識貝克爾並在貝克爾被對手帕茲克陷害前救了他貝克爾為了感激他遂答應將百分之 五的股權讓給卡西爾但卡西爾在機場的地下水道中發現貝克爾不只盜拷光碟甚至走私槍火於是不接受這份報酬而離去
　　雖然如此卡西爾還是引 導照顧漢娜長大的克納德帶著漢娜與女兒瑞莎與貝克爾相認但也暗中請瑪麗亞與特技團的同事以空中飛人的絕技搬走了藏在地下水道的槍械卡西爾以為他終於完 成幫助人類的心願但另一名守護天使卻告訴他整艘船又被歹徒帕茲克攔劫挾持心焦如焚的卡西爾趕到船塢以彈跳的方式像天使般躍下從容地救了瑞莎但 卡西爾卻在蠅索上遭受帕茲克以槍擊斃
　　事實上卡西爾是接到上帝召回天使的旨意由他的守護天使拉斐爾迎他回去戴米爾與雜技團的伙伴制伏了帕茲克三名歹徒後抱著卡西爾的屍體不勝唏噓雖然貝克爾終於與姐姐漢娜相認但人類的事情似乎像永遠潺潺而流的河水一樣永不歇止

　　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