三姝艷史

　　這是一種名叫康普茶的飲料，它可以改變人的思維，使員工工作到死。

　　因神秘塔羅牌的指引，那群用魔術“替天行盜”的騎士們殺回來了！“初代四騎士”與三位新生代魔術師攜手，目標直指一位鉆石大亨——其家族憑借龐大資本與隱秘勢力，構建了全球性犯罪網絡，也為騎士團布下層層陷阱！面對史上最難的“盜竊任務”，騎士們再現奇跡，上演橫跨全球的魔術大秀，與“血色鉆石家族”展開騙中騙、局中局、計中計的巔峰博弈……

　　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.

 故事發生在二十世紀三十年代初期，莉蓮（簡·方達 Jane Fonda 飾）前往維也納尋找自己曾經的好友茱莉亞（瓦妮莎·雷德格瑞夫 Vanessa Redgrave 飾），到達目的地之后，莉蓮才知道，茱莉亞因為和法西斯支持者發生了激烈沖突而受傷住進了醫院，之后不知所蹤。在莉蓮回歸自己的生活之后，她意外的收到了茱莉亞的來信，在信中，茱莉亞請求莉蓮幫助自己投運五萬美元給反納粹組織，盡管這一舉動在當時意味著巨大的危險，但是莉蓮還是答應了茱莉亞，最終，兩個多年未見的好友在柏林重逢。然而，沒過多久，莉蓮便受到了茱莉亞的死訊，在悲痛之中，莉蓮明白，自己還有未完成的任務。