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.
昏昏欲睡，电视剧节奏，要人物没人物，要故事没故事，就只剩舞指还不错。
2022了我需要这样温情的片子。天真无邪，一尘不染。大团圆结局，还有可爱的生化狗狗。哈哈哈哈哈哈。叔叔蛮可爱的。我竟然中间有几次差点哭真是老了。
[2021.11.17] 天呐这红毛这没有眉毛的小眉毛 啊要是有这么大一只德牧 头对着头简直快乐昏倒
9命
题材是非常可以的，奇遇类型，很适合亲子一起看，比较欢快轻松，神秘商人加分
比较无聊，还好孩子们都很喜欢。
有些宝贝得盘，所以有时候这棋局你能盘活、也能搞死。索性郭子健整明白了。整体流线型，特丝滑！还要怎样？
也不能忽略这狗搞破坏的能力啊，家里什么都不是完好的，所以送到动物乐园，在野外待着才是最好的。
如果小说就是这样的结局，我觉得也很一般。你在真的上面弄个包装，让它看起来假，就不是把真的送给日本人了？？这叫什么逻辑？
对原著的还原还是比较不错的，只是这种一个接一个谜题的原著，读着精彩烧脑，作者可以旁征博引，夹叙很多历史知识，《达芬奇密码》可谓这类书籍最有代表性的作品，但这种小说要拍成电影，并不讨巧，大量的时间要用来解释这个，解释那个，两个小时里面要塞进那么多谜题，难为导演了……
with房东（）想说大部分六分电影的评分形状真的很像竖中指（）
噢，小区邻里之间也太友爱了吧，不过毕竟也是，谁能决绝一只巨大的拉布拉多小可爱呢hhh。电影主题很不错非常适合儿童观看，就是那个亚洲小男孩的造型还是带点外国人对亚洲人的刻板印象以外，其他都还好
average movie for kids，剧情无脑适合小孩子，演员演技还不错，舅舅太好笑了。
虽然特效剧情啥的很老套，但是后半段还是会被那种真挚的感情所打动
如果有一天你的宠物变大，大家会有什么反应，我觉得应该会真的抓去做实验，被抓去作研究，感觉可以搞一个大型宠物宇宙电影
充满爱与趣味的电影，虽然我爱狗，可我真的不想拥有这样一条巨犬，因为舔你一下就等于洗澡了，哈
哈哈哈哈哈 小女孩和大红狗的组合 就一定是我偏爱的口味了
除了葛优死的时候太煽情，找不到他爸墓碑信谁放的之外，还是可以看。
这么长篇的小说改成一部电影实在是太费劲了……李现真的好油腻。反而演郑国渠那个演员很讨喜！
怎么说呢，就每一步都知道导演这段是为了啥。
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