大汲嘢

　　本片是美國50年代一部優秀的科幻片。導演Jack Arnold運用特效，讓一只小小的蜘蛛在銀屏上變成一只體形龐大的塔蘭圖拉毒蛛。影片中的塔蘭圖拉毒蛛是一只十分可怕的怪獸，它四處破壞，但始終免不了滅亡的命運。　　經典科幻片，強烈推薦！

 普特里一直只知道她的母親薩里是一位才華橫溢的塔羅牌占卜師，深受眾多高官顯貴和商界名流的信賴。她對薩里幾乎沒有任何私人記憶，直到薩里在一場事故中喪生。有一天，普特里收到了一條手機短信——來自她已故母親的號碼。起初，她以為這只是個惡作劇。但漸漸地，這些短信開始指引她未來的命運——而這些命運真的發生了。普特里慢慢意識到，這些短信確實是她母親發來的。

影片改編自蒲松齡《聊齋志異》之《聶小倩》。小倩生前被人所負含恨而終，死后化為女鬼，被姥姥囚禁于蘭若寺。恰逢書生寧生進京趕考，借宿此地，意外救下小倩。逃亡途中，兩人不斷遭遇人間及地府勢力的阻撓，卻也在此般經歷中感情升溫。寧生帶著小倩感受了人間美好，小倩決心還陽，卻在到達鬼市后發現事情遠沒有這么簡單……

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.