Love Me 楓與鈴

1982年，法國總統弗朗索瓦·密特朗決定為其任期的旗艦項目——拉德芳斯大拱門發起一場國際建筑競賽，該項目與盧浮宮和凱旋門對齊。出乎所有人意料，一位在法國鮮為人知的 53 歲丹麥建筑師約翰·奧托·馮·斯普雷克爾森贏得了競賽。這位建筑師打算完全按照自己的設想建造大拱門，但他的理念很快與實際限制和政治變幻莫測相沖突。這部電影以真實事件為靈感，講述了這位理想主義的丹麥建筑師如何努力在政治博弈、官僚主義和藝術自由的限制下實現其宏偉愿景的故事。

　　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.

　　XX是一個新的恐怖文選與性別扭曲的所有段將由女性導演將明星的女主角。在預算和時間限制下，董事們被賦予了自由的創造力，但所有的片段都將涉及到恐怖類型。

在墨西哥的叢林深處的神廟，考古學家們發現了一種古老的蛇崇拜文化，同時他們不小心釋放了一條沉睡了幾個世紀的巨大而可怕的蟒蛇。