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.
题材挺好的 半纪录片了 当迷你剧随便看看吧 爱看女主演
心疼制作组，心疼导演和演员，心疼恐怖片爱好者
宝宝们不用担心晦气，看盗版的大陆人收不到台湾的正版诅咒
因为本人文盲不认识后四个字怎么念，所以没有被摆（
坠爱的东亚民俗主题，虽然有点晦气但不妨碍我喜欢。
主时间线恐怖氛围没营造出来，对我是完全不起作用。村庄部分还不错，摄影和场景都有游戏《生化危机：村庄》的感觉。最后互动实验奏效的时刻，那种强迫参与感很妙。要是直接把村庄部分当主线拍会比《灵媒》精彩得多。
看得昏昏欲睡，实在是找不出什么亮点。就是先为民俗宗教赋了层魅，然后再配上一个流水线化的祛魅过程，辅以早就审美疲劳的DV摄影机拍摄视角，和近年来诸多同类型片撞型严重。时间线处理得也很糟糕，一会探索民俗、一会科普破咒、一会又去嗲嗲地谈亲情，观众好不容易悬着的一颗心，反复被轻拿轻放，很难达到恐怖效果，还不如像班庄的『灵媒』那样，顺序地老老实实把故事推向高潮。
哎作为伪纪录片真的不太合格，到处都是不知道哪儿来的摄影机，机位切换太频繁反倒让人出戏。从头到尾 jump scare 也不甚高级，只有开头还谈得上是不错的调度。结尾这么缺德真的不怕观众集体暴揍嘛
女主角就是个害人精over，还没那个大家都懂的台游吓人。有些地方渲染得挺恐怖的但你手持摄影晃来晃去我看不清啊！带着观众互动那一套倒是挺新鲜的，从贞子录像带到把这条消息转发五个群再到老铁们弹幕刷起来，我们真的相信传播的力量吗。被咒是增加恐怖感啊没想到因为这个被打低分，咋的如果电影最后说本片被开过光票房能破50亿？
玩不起就别看啊，说晦气然后打1星的人是信咒吗？中肯评价一下电影行不行？导演还没对你们这些白嫖b感觉晦气呢。
柯孟融導演極有可能是整部片裡唯一中邪的人，由他創建起來的視覺邪教執意於向我們散佈「攝像機無所不能」的詛咒。也許在導演看來，若要讓「看後即死」的催眠恐懼能夠奏效，無孔不入的多重視點不可或缺：正如信徒重複唸誦同一句咒語，觀者在受到導演對攝像機異乎尋常的宗教式迷戀的持續影響同時，詛咒的儀式已經完成。由此看來，導演的「惡意」才最讓我感到害怕，而不是光有表面邪惡的電影。偽紀錄片形式於是成為《咒》最大的謊言，恰恰相反，導演逼迫著我們去「觀看」各個不可能存在的角度，各種精心策劃的靈異現象，總之看得越多越好，沒有什麼是攝像機不能捕捉和實現的。資訊過載的恐懼瀰漫人心，遮掩神母雙眼的紅布被揭開的一剎那，連最「不可見」之事亦能被輕易轉化為可見，（仍然完好無損的）機器便成為唯一的，真正的恐怖本身：深不見底的虛無。
煽动性的，虚假的，Meme式的，面对面的，当代的。
为Jodie Comer细致入微的演技鼓掌，可塑性很强。演得了小人物，也撑得起商业爆米花，更能抗起super killer的疯癫。好的演员是多面手。
片中这个 诅咒之神 为所妄为 无所不能 。。。就。。行吧。ok fine。
咒语故事解读那里，观影者一般会盯着屏幕中心看着一个字一个字往外蹦，最后一下白屏，眼前就是那个咒。这个视觉效果设计挺有心的。其他的，都是老套路了。
这种题材和这种拍摄方式的恐怖片很特别，第一次感觉眼前一亮的恐怖片，看完以后还是久久觉得有点后怕……胆子大试试呗
目前华语没有比这个更恐怖的，值得鼓励，平常很爱看恐怖片但是我现在还在腿软…
镜头不停地没逻辑切换实在令人看得又晕又烦躁，伪纪录片的形式不是不能用，但真的不要滥用，基本上又是个作死+献祭+亲情的故事，被说晦气的形式恰恰就是优于《灵媒》的优点，《灵媒》缺的就是这种联结感。民俗元素成了近几年台湾恐怖片的加分项，玩得越来越溜了。真心地说，华语恐怖片还得靠台湾。
而代价是诅咒
7+的片昨晚放出资源立马就6.4了。1女主人设蠢且自私，好讨厌，想给观众下咒，但一看就能识破，她让你跟着念和盯着看跟着做，撸撸猫哼哼歌喝个水，心里默念反弹反弹反弹。2最后讲清楚了这组织的来龙去脉，也说清楚了女主动机，三星可以打底。3以分发祝福为饵诱人上钩共享诅咒这个概念还挺新颖的。4精华全在预告片系列。5女主像刘若英到经常引发我出戏。
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