功成名就的筱月桂从没忘记要寻找杀死常力雄,也就是她女儿父亲的凶手当她发现自己爱上黄佩玉时,也证实了“洪门内奸的真正身份”......她与常爷的前跟班余其扬合谋除去内奸,助余其扬成为洪门第一个银行家,新的“上海王”。时过多年,筱月桂女儿常荔荔从美国学成归来,迷上电影,在母亲等人的帮助下,成为轰动一时的大明星。一次意外,筱月桂撞破女儿与余其扬的关系......三个人的命运也自此改变。
功成名就的筱月桂从没忘记要寻找杀死常力雄,也就是她女儿父亲的凶手当她发现自己爱上黄佩玉时,也证实了“洪门内奸的真正身份”......她与常爷的前跟班余其扬合谋除去内奸,助余其扬成为洪门第一个银行家,新的“上海王”。时过多年,筱月桂女儿常荔荔从美国学成归来,迷上电影,在母亲等人的帮助下,成为轰动一时的大明星。一次意外,筱月桂撞破女儿与余其扬的关系......三个人的命运也自此改变。
回复 :功夫小子七斤,机智过人,好打不平。一次,路经某地,为了帮助苏姓青年去打群架,他以“即学即用”的独特本领,以其人之道还治其人之身,轻松的将林村青年逐个击败,村民兴高采烈把七斤拉住不放,说今次乃比武招亲,他赢得村长的女儿娇娇为妻。原来娇娇是三寸金莲,七斤大吃一惊,谢绝而逃。刁蛮娇娇对七斤一见钟情,岂容他不顾而去……
回复 :脱离卧底生涯的锋,以为两袖清风,惟昔日阴影挥之不去,上司、女友、老父,统统投不信任票,一次枪声,同袍继而倒地,原是江湖的昔日好友却变成陌路人。可怕的是锋也变成了自己的敌人,内心的煎熬令可卡因成了他最直接了当的解脱。滤镜下的灰暗色调、霓虹灯下的惨淡蓝、幻觉式FLASHBACK。是绝望观感,还是在无人境界的国度?最危险的人物,正是那个活在梦魇的自己。
回复 :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.