處女地/十日談

　　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.

　　桑德拉（伊梅爾達·斯湯頓 Imelda Staunton 飾）和丈夫結婚已經四十年了，在這漫長的四十年里，兩人之間雖然不能說是從未有過爭執，但也算恩愛，桑德拉深深的信賴著自己的枕邊人。然而某一日，桑德拉震驚的發現，丈夫不僅有了外遇，外遇的對象竟然還是自己最好的朋友。傷心和憤怒之中，桑德拉選擇了離開，前往倫敦投奔自己的妹妹碧芙（西莉亞·伊姆瑞 Celia Imrie 飾）?！　‰m然身為姐妹，可碧芙的性格和桑德拉卻是大相徑庭。碧芙生來熱情奔放又開朗，而且非常擅長通過肢體語言來揮灑心情。桑德拉決定和碧芙一起去上舞蹈課，在翩翩起舞之中，壓抑了一輩子的桑德拉終于找到了情緒的發泄口。

　　最近，城市里發生了可怕的殺人事件，一具被切割成6塊的女尸的曝光和兇手的逍遙法外引起了社會的恐慌。作為休假的交換條件，搜查科研究員姜民浩（薛景求 飾）接下了這個棘手的案件。行事雷厲風行的他和推理天才閔瑞英（韓惠珍 飾）聯手，調查取得了突飛猛進的進展，嫌疑人李圣浩（ 柳承范 飾）的名字漸漸浮出水面?！　±钍ズ埔唤洿毒蛯ψ约核傅淖镄泄┱J不諱，可是姜民浩卻發現事實并不是他所說的那么簡單。就在這個節骨眼上，姜民浩的女兒突然失蹤，他明白這絕對和李圣浩脫不了干系。李圣浩告訴姜民浩，若想要得知女兒的下落，就必須和他玩一個解謎的游戲——解開他留在尸體上的謎題。一場以生命為籌碼的賭注開始了。

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