儿子（刘烨）高考落榜不得已回到大山中的家后，国产做了大半辈子山村邮递员的父亲（滕汝骏）提前退休，国产安排儿子接下自己的工作。儿子上班第一天，父亲千叮咛万嘱咐之后仍不放心，带上长年在其左右的忠实老狗决定陪儿子再走一趟送信之旅。起初，父子两人因为长期隔膜只默默走路，渐渐地，通过与不同村民尤其一个漂亮女孩（陈好）的接触，两人渐渐打开话匣，对彼此有了深一层的认识和了解。秀美如画的风景中，儿子慢慢明白了父亲工作的辛苦和意义，父亲也渐渐体会到他二十几年来对家庭的亏欠。
黎骏
回复 :1900年北京，慈禧太后当权、中国领土四分五裂。端亲王力主出兵，并派义和团围困外国使馆，当千军万马兵临城下之际，美国军官义无反顾，率领各国联军作困兽之斗，终于扭转命运，杀出重围。
金京浩
回复 :这是斯坦利·库布里克的第一部故事片。剧本出自他的高中同学、诗人Howard Sackler之手，拍摄资金也是库布里克自己筹措，大部分是向父亲、叔叔和朋友们借的。这部作品和库布里克以后的影片一样充满了超现实主义象征性，因此只有一家艺术片商愿意发行和放映，而库布里克认为此片只是一部实习作品，他只答应私下放映，并多次想将拷贝销毁。尽管如此，本片还是赢得了一些评论家的好评，尤其是在摄影方面。
徐颢菲
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.
