郑仁浩
发表于6分钟前
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:1815年6月18日早晨,惠灵顿公爵所指挥的部队,聚集在比利时一个名为滑铁卢的小镇营地里。连绵不断的降雨带来了痛苦、潮湿和寒冷给士兵。但是这些士兵将会感谢这场从前夜就开始下的大雨,因为这场夏日暴雨不仅挽救了很多人的生命,同时,也即将改写了整个欧洲的历史,就是在这儿──滑铁卢战场。滑铁卢这场战役,是以拿破仑为首的法国军队独力抵抗以奥地利、普鲁士、俄国、英国为首的联盟国。拿破仑是个自信而又轻视敌人的人。他从未和惠灵顿交锋过,他相信惠灵顿不会在滑铁卢进行顽强抵抗。他期望一次进攻就能将惠灵顿赶下山脊,逼他後退。因此他根本没有料到会有一场大规模的战斗。战事一开始,法国好不容易才击败英国的先锋,但是法军的实力已被削弱了大半。当联军越接近法军,法军的士气越下降,军队也发生了骚动。不久,法军被彻底击败,这场战役只是打了一整日便结束。滑铁卢战役很特殊,因爲它是极少数单凭一场战斗就蠃得决定性胜利的战役。在这之後,几乎没有单凭一场战斗就能决定整个战争结局的战役,但这场战役做到了。滑铁卢战役的胜利使惠灵顿公爵成爲英雄,受到人民的热烈欢迎。而拿破仑的命运则是无比凄凉,他被流放在大西洋圣赫伦岛。在那里,拿破仑度过了他的馀生,昔日那位骄傲的皇帝,亦慢慢的消失在这个废墟中。
小龙女
发表于3分钟前
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: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.