马特·洛

越南战争期间(1959-1975)，一支美军小分队奉命去阻击越共战士，在丛林隧道里，美军敢死队与越南士兵展开了殊死战斗……

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 prisonerpenitent 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 notare 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.

Eager to land a journalistic position, Adam White goes to work as an advice-giving newspaper columnist. His editor, Shrike, takes pleasure in browbeating his alcoholic wife Florence for her past adultery, and assigning his employees journalistic jobs for which they have little aptitude or interest. Shrike goads Adam into meeting one of his correspondents, Fay Doyle, a teary, self-pitying woman who makes a play for him. Adam is torn between his loyalty to the newspaper and his girl Justy.

Maurizio is a stubborn boy who grows up near the fiumara, where people throw away whatever they no longer need. This open-air dump becomes his playground, where among wrecked cars and other treasures large and small, he begins to dream of playing in the town band. Mamma Rosa looks on his musical aspirations as a childish whim, a luxury that the family cannot afford. And so, between the good advice by Mosè the donkey and the pranks by chicken N’Giulina, Maurizio is faced with a growing series of adventures and comes to the realization that, if his dream is to come true, he must be determined to see it through right to the end.

影片讲述了一种新型致命病毒在几天之内席卷全球的故事。贝丝（格温妮丝·帕特洛 Gwyneth Paltrow 饰）从香港出差回明尼阿波利斯的家后突发疾病死亡，丈夫托马斯 （马特·达蒙 Matt Damon 饰）协助Dr. Erin Mears （凯特·温斯莱特 Kate Winslet 饰）调查真相。可怕的是同样病症的患者在世界范围内大规模出现，病毒在不停蔓延。阴谋论记者阿伦（裘德·洛 Jude Law 饰）趁机散布对政府和医疗机构不利的舆论。Dr. Leonora Orantes （玛丽昂·歌迪亚 Marion Cotillard 饰）被派往香港调查病因，但却被本土医生（黄经汉 Chin Han 饰）扣留作为交换疫苗的人质。在Dr. Ellis Cheever （劳伦斯·菲什伯恩 Laurence Fishburne 饰）和年轻医生Ally Hextall（詹妮弗·艾莉 Jennifer Ehle 饰）的努力下，终于研制出治疗病毒的疫苗，事件终于得以平静。 值得一提的是本片还有港星何超仪和徐天佑的卖力出演。

　　《衡量一个人》片名取自柏拉图名言：「衡量一个人，端看他拥有权力时的所做所为」（The measure of a man is what he does with power）。剧情描述一个中年失业父亲、奋力寻找工作的故事，他在经历各种羞辱人的面试和受训课程后，最后找到了令他讨厌的超市警卫的工作，却拥有监视顾客与同侪的无上权力。但他被迫必须揪出在超市行窃的小贼，而这些人却都是跟他一样同属生活无继的人…。 　　这是文森林顿与导演史蒂芬布塞的第三度合作，片中除了文森林顿外，其他演员清一色均为素人，也使电影展现出不同于以往的戏剧力道，被誉为史蒂芬布塞迄今的最佳作品。