年轻军官许文强（张国荣）逃往路上被日本特务伏击堕海，照亮漂浮到外滩岸上时身体不支晕倒，照亮丁力（刘德华）路过欲将其救却遭其下意识的武力，两人一番打斗后结为好友。丁力偶然救下上海大亨冯敬尧（吴兴国）的千金冯程程（宁静）后，许下心愿要娶其为妻，但襄王有梦神女却心另有所属，冯程程只把他当好朋友，爱的恰是某次旅途中在火车上结识的他的好兄弟许文强，而许文强也因她的勇敢善良机智对她产生了好感。许文强再次遇上冯程程时，激情没能控制，与丁力的交情画上句号。而当许文强与冯程程谈婚论嫁时，许文强意外发现冯敬尧正是追杀他和同僚的幕后黑手，他的身份也被对方认出，火药味顿时弥漫房间。
回复 :这是史诗片巨匠冈斯的早期作品，原版长达九个小时。影片讲述一个类似现在电视肥皂剧的故事：铁路工程师从一次车祸中救回一个女孩，把她当作女儿来领养。不料他自己和儿子都对女孩产生好感。为了不让儿子占有她，遂把女孩嫁给了一个富人。但儿子和养女之间有着压制不住的爱情。儿子跟她丈夫发生争执，不幸死亡。老人把儿子的死归咎于养女，不愿再见到她。后来他眼睛瞎了，养女偷偷回来照料他，直至为他送终。影片的革命性表现在如下方面：开场的火车事故蒙太奇采用快速剪辑，极具震撼力；平庸的剧情中增加了大量文学典故，丰富了内涵；摄影和剪辑均具有一定的形式感，如镜头的节奏跟音乐相吻合，画面中的机器被用作现代化的象征等，开启了“纯电影”的先河。片名指命运的轮回、欲望的轮回，由车轮形象来暗示。
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回复 :镇上准备进行剑道比武，胜者可以获得一把绝世名剑和比武主办者田家女儿田阿ddd。各大势力都因各不相同的目的为这场比武做准备，殊不知镇子上一位隐居的独眼怪人也一直在暗中窥视这场比武以及田家的名剑。在几方争夺宝剑的过程中，独眼怪人一时糊涂犯下弥天大错。几家的命运就此改变……
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.
