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.
各种禁忌恋，却有真正的爱情。
作。男主是不是有躁郁症啊？真的需要去看一下医生。结局问题也没有解决。另外，他都不用工作的吗？天天闲逛还这么有钱…
我心何处是归处？就像男主失去了爱人，女儿离开了自己，他仿佛没有了情感寄托，只能一直流浪。他也不知道自己的问题在哪里？我也不知道。
磨寶推薦的電影，很能理解磨喜歡這部電影，但劇情過於男主視角，後半段不再是「若者たち」而是「若者」了
在爱人面前发疯似的挽回那已经支离破碎的爱情，在女儿面前极力地做好一位父亲，却总是不尽人意……
肉体的欢愉中夹着无影不在的孤独和迷失。男主终于正面背面全裸，让男女观众大饱眼福，可惜再帅的美男也抵挡不住岁月的无情，水桶腰多少要扣掉1分，哈哈哈。
中年躁郁症大叔的二三事。（世间什么事物永不过时？答：Leo叔的脸。曾经的小鲜肉已经有皱纹了，但每一道皱纹都那么美。）
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什么都想讲点什么都没讲好的典型，直白又肤浅，生活的一点无奈和哀愁被翻来覆去说了无数遍，直到索然无味。演员也选的不对：北村匠海极度缺乏生活感和情欲感，根本不适合这个角色。エイリアンズ这首歌最近出现频率好高。
当个放松喜剧挺好的啊，饭后娱乐笑一笑，为啥非要吹毛求疵。。。
如果要拍男主的成长线和兄弟情大可不必把工具人女主写作二番，除了黑岛结菜整部片子都是在浪费我时间
演员们的表演都很出彩，只是对男主形象的展现有点流于表面，没能深入分析到具体起源，作者埋了原生家庭、前男友这两条线，但都没展开。不过这样莫名浮躁、不安分的人物形象应该可以戳中许多现实中的男同吧，就挺真实的
只有两个片段还有回忆，其它的太聒噪了……
继承了你韩爱情片普遍难看的传统，真的好难看。这个无聊的剧本完全看不出有什么拍成电影的意义，龙叔选剧本的眼光实在是不敢恭维。
他描述初恋那一段，羞涩得似乎又成为那个十几岁的少年，很动人。
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那些悲傷、鬱悶、暴躁、迷惘、放縱，都是只有自己一個觀眾的表演罷了。人生常常就是一場比爛，我也不是沒有過那樣的階段，但是一和聖地亞哥的瘋狂與糜爛一比，只肯把負面情緒留給自己的我，似乎就可以感歎自己依然是一個好同志，然而我清楚得很，我才不是什麼好鳥。
22_020。可以的，倒也不是一般的喜剧，比喜剧还多了一点正经和温馨？但有些地方也挺好笑的。导演之前是演员啊
再也说不出“称霸涉谷”那样的话了，只是一个穿行在涉谷的默默的社会人，当时平淡无奇的重复聚会，如今回忆起已是珍贵的“奇妙一刻”。
对不起，我爱惨了，情绪在一部片子里经历大笑大哭，编剧的细腻我太喜欢了
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