非洲浪漫冒險

分裂: 黑色子彈

　　對警察槍擊、種族主義和他們共同的聯(lián)系進(jìn)行原始的、毫無歉意的審視。沒有說明我們知道答案，但不害怕直接提問。

我是山姆

 在星巴克工作的山姆（西恩?潘 Sean Penn 飾），雖已成人，但智力水平只有7歲。一次偶然，他收留了一個流浪女。該女子幫山姆生下了一個女兒后消失得無影無蹤。他給女兒取名叫露西（達(dá)科塔?范寧 Dakota Fanning 飾），因為他最喜歡甲殼蟲樂隊的《天空中戴鉆石 的露西》。他非常疼愛自己的孩子。露西在山姆的細(xì)心呵護(hù)下慢慢地長大了，她發(fā)現(xiàn)爸爸不能看懂稍微復(fù)雜一些的故事。她在拒絕長大，希望和爸爸一樣。父女倆的生活是那么幸福。地區(qū)的教育官員發(fā)現(xiàn)了這個特殊的家庭，他們認(rèn)為山姆沒有能力照顧露西，于是把露西帶走了。傷心極了的山姆一心要掙回露西的撫養(yǎng)權(quán)，于是他自以為是的去找該地區(qū)最好的律師……

我很在乎

　　瑪拉（裴淳華 Rosamund Pike 飾）經(jīng)營著一家監(jiān)護(hù)人公司，她專門尋找身體情況欠佳同時又無依無靠的老年人下手，通過并不是那么合法的手段令自己成為他們的法定監(jiān)護(hù)人，將他們送進(jìn)療養(yǎng)院，之后便可接手和變賣他們的財產(chǎn)和房產(chǎn)，再將所得據(jù)為己有。　　某日，瑪拉將下一個“吞噬”的目標(biāo)放在了一位名叫珍妮弗（黛安娜·維斯特 Dianne Wiest 飾）的老太太身上，經(jīng)調(diào)查，珍妮弗沒有任何的親人，同時又擁有著價值不菲的遺產(chǎn)，簡直就是他們的最佳“肥羊”。在一番操作之后，珍妮弗被沒收手機關(guān)進(jìn)了療養(yǎng)院，但此時的瑪拉和她的戀人兼合伙人弗蘭（艾莎·岡薩雷斯 Eiza González 飾）并不知道的是，她們?nèi)巧狭艘粋€不該惹，也不能惹的人。

黑仙女

　　在完全印度文化的背景下，女主安努舒卡·莎瑪試過了殺人的公路驚悚片和與鬼魂相關(guān)的喜劇片后，在她制片的第三部作品中講了一個西方惡魔的故事。　　從宗教勢力的追捕中僥幸逃生的惡魔之女，在母親的保護(hù)下，在山林中活到二十幾歲。母親去世后，女孩走進(jìn)城市，被善良內(nèi)向的男人收留。　　這是一個異類不惜付出一切渴望融入人類生活，渴望愛情的故事。聯(lián)想到所有宗教都奉行的五花八門的女性禁忌，聯(lián)想到女孩的母親是因為被強迫才懷上了她，不禁感嘆:也許所有女人都是主流社會眼中的惡魔。因為愛，女人能擁有摧毀一切的力量;因為愛，女人能放下一切仇恨;因為愛，女人能犧牲一切，包括自己。世界就是被這樣的惡魔支撐著的。想盡辦法把她們趕盡殺絕的人，和她們自己，誰是真正的惡魔?作為低成本獨立制片的恐怖電影，聲效化妝場景什么的，都沒什么毛病，都在及格線以上。不過如果不像我一樣對故事這么煽情，觀眾應(yīng)該會覺得故事太單薄，不夠刺激。一些觀眾群體可能會覺得不太舒服。畢竟在這部電影中，心中有愛的惡魔之女不是真的惡魔，那些站在正義一方的驅(qū)魔人才是。

等待方舟

　　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.

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