1991年法国杜维尔电影节观众奖
1991年圣丹斯电影节荧幕特别奖
1991年圣保罗国际电影节观众奖
高中辍学生玛利亚告诉家人自己怀孕后,父亲倒毙地上,母亲把她踢出家门,男朋友弃她而去。于是她孤零零一个人无家可归。此时她遇上马修。他是个修理电子器械很有天分的高中毕业生,但他有个原则:质量至上,这使得他每份工作都做不长久。当玛利亚接受了马修的帮助,他们便展开一段令彼此发生转变的关系……
When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents, her father drops dead on the floor. Her mother kicks her out of the house and her boyfriend dumps her, so Maria is left alone and homeless. This is when she meets Matthew Slaughter. Matthew is an educated high school graduate with a great talent for fixing electronic devices, but he can't hang on to a job because of his principled attitude towards quality. When Maria accepts Matthew's offer to help her, they begin to form a relationship with each other in which both of them begin to change.
- “Do you miss your kids?”
- “Yes”
- “Do you hate your ex-husband?”
- “Sure”
- “Do you want to get married again?”
- “Of course”.
A cavalier convo between a high-school drop-out Maria (Shelly) and her divorced elder sister Peg (Falco) in TRUST, US indie hyphenate Hal Hartley’s second feature, gives the gist of the vicious circle that a woman often gets entangled with, and in Hartley’s quirky but roundly unconventional girl-meet-boy yarn, he will ensure that the same fate will not befall upon his protagonist Maria.
Starting from its opening’s drop-dead gambit, TRUST sets its deadpan timbre squarely in the center. Maria naively takes her jock boyfriend’s throwaway promise of marriage for granted and gets pregnant, and obliquely is answer for her father’s sudden shuffling off this mortal coil (she never knows he has a bad heart!), consequentially is frozen out by everyone else, barely getting out of harm’s way from a sex pervert in a liqueur store, she falls in with Matthew (Donovan), a retiring loner but a consummate electronic repairman who has a retrograde affinity of analog over digital and prefers repairing radios over televisions (the latter causes cancer to boot), they hits it off fine, nothing remotely earth-shattering or libido-driven, by choice, Hartley brilliantly teases out the encroaching tenderness which they will grow for each other, a healthier, more humanistic and salutary type of connection between two strangers, which prods both to make some vital decisions: an abortion or keeping the baby, securing a 9 to 5 dead-end job or sticking to one’s ground, getting married or stay as friends on the common ground of their mutual affection and trust.
There is some bad parenting in the mix too, Matthew is in the receiving end of an abusive father (MacKay), that kind would gut-punch his own son without blinking an eye, who still rankles that Matthew’s mother died of giving birth to him (called it narrow-minded or inward-looking is a criminal overstate), from where one can see where Matthew’s inchoate violent proclivity comes. More enigmatically misandrist is Maria’s mother Jean (played by an unknown Nelson with Janus-faced finesse between astuteness and sangfroid), whose confiding moment of the aftermath of her recent bereavement tellingly vouchsafes the heartening fact: Mr. Hartley is devoid of the usual unsavory male-chauvinism in his chromosomes.
The two leads are both excellent, Adrienne Shelly has a cool girl’s composure seeping through her trademark elfin air, totally sympathetic as a hapless misfit whereas a subplot entailing a snaffled infant baby singles out Maria’s learning curve of motherhood and in those moments, she is unassumingly observant and grown-up. On the other hand, Martin Donovan makes great play of a vastly conflicted persona shrouded by antisocial angst but finds fondness with an unlike match, flagged up by the grenade he carries, Matthew’s self-destructive predisposition has only one antidote, a sincere, real human connection based on mutual trust, isn’t that what everyone wants?
Shot in a shoestring budget within a meagre 11-day span, imbued with an antiseptic, blueish hue and blessed with Hartley’s expressive compositions and other winning trimmings, TRUST is whimsical but not cutesy, rapier-like but never doctrinaire, earnest yet at times you can catch its knowing wink: kookiness is the new sexy, and don’t forget, Harley juvenilia is made in 1990.
referential points: Wes Anderson’s RUSHMORE (1998, 7.3/10); John Waters CRY-BABY (1990, 6.2/10); Amy Heckerling’s CLUELESS (1995, 6.6/10).
很仙气的一部,属于创作者只在青年时期才能完成的作品。看得出戈大爷对他的影响
欣賞尊重和信任真的比愛重要。
良心
嗲和后搖(居然1990年)......每一秒都感同身受......我跳下來,你會不會接住我......
9.4/10 !惊喜!光对话就值得看两遍(目前网上的字幕基本驴头不对马嘴,建议有能力的直接听英文对话),从极端的内部同性别凝视的对立(女主角家里三位女性,父亲开场暴毙,男主角家中两位男性,母亲无踪影),到一种重复双性家庭的妥协(荒谬的婚姻),再通过一种对于育儿的麦克芬或偷孩的复演(孕检和打胎,拯救被偷走的孩子),重新构成一种危机之下的对话。“信任”这个标题不仅是高度的反讽(本该相信的人从不可信:家人,媒介亦是:电视惨遭痛批),更是一种处在边缘时刻被恢复的黏性。诸多现代主义的构图复演着杜尚的Ready-Made和波普重申的日用品,唯有哲学和物理书籍去平衡这种荒诞。
失足少女路遇乖戾青年,共同撑起信任的一片天
我依稀觉得男主像脸庞微发福版的小乔
写实的电影语言,非写实的人物写作,具有太出挑的自反视角,生命的智慧“从天而降”,本该是情境的则退化为背景的,人物离开了现实的土壤。
这部戏的~~夹心又软又甜~~~
Hal Hartley這部的確較好看,掙扎墮與不墮的怒女、糾結入世與否的憤青、武裝心房的深閨母和威權父、彷彿留下光明的結尾---感覺像極簡冷調的廚房水槽電影。(也許就是沒那麼叛逆吧!)
Hal Hartley 片里的死或没死成都特别富有戏剧性。以为死了通常都没死,以为不会死的都死了。
貌似老美在90年代初拍了很多类似亲子和人生观的励志片,小成本,所以性价比很高哟。
每一帧构图都致力于拗姿势的电影我通常是支持的哪怕它剧力不太足。马丁唐文虽说挺高脸好像也算俊的但总有股子歪七歪八的感觉,我觉着他异常可爱。
即使趣味上对讽刺喜剧式类型人物处理非常不喜,也不得不承认台词和剧本写得真的蛮厉害。
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前半个小时是我喜欢的基调,接下来走上歧途
「信任與崇拜,比愛情更重要」順便也應證了《我的解放日記》裡美貞的愛情觀。
很喜欢
手榴弹狂暴理工男和任性弑父高中怀孕少女的共同成长。危害人类灵魂的邪恶电视,至少能麻木不断妥协的个人原则;残破的家庭关系就像老旧留声机上的老旧黑胶唱片,不断卡碟,但脑海会自然补完每一首歌。浪漫诗意动人的Hal Hartley童话
重看,其实哪有必要如此呐,都是导演的浪漫主义情结(以及迷恋戈大爷)在作祟!Andrew Sarris “结尾60秒突然拯救了整部电影!”,配着Hal独一份的悠扬配乐,小小郊区里的小小故事变得像宇宙一样大~~ Matthew大谈臭氧层想起Martin Donovan本人推特上一天八百条反政府言论,这不是本色出演谁还是本色出演,俺的理想型,一辈子的可爱angry young man