男人的狂喜技能

 迪茲（加里·庫珀 Gary Cooper 飾）是一位小有成就的商人，早已經衣食無憂的他希望能夠從繁忙的事務中脫身，將時間更多的花費在自己的興趣愛好之上。一筆價值兩千萬的巨額遺產從天而降落到了迪茲的頭上，報社問詢派來了記者芭比（琪恩·亞瑟 Jean Arthur 飾），希望她能夠從迪茲的身上挖掘出一些吸引眼球的新聞。剛開始，芭比十分看不慣迪茲的處世為人，但隨著時間的推移，她漸漸被后者的善良和正直所吸引，兩人之間產生了浪漫的愛情。迪茲決定將得到的遺產用于幫助深陷貧困的人，這一舉動遭到了律師約翰（Douglass Dumbrille 飾）的質疑，他堅定的認為迪茲的腦袋可能出了什么問題，甚至將他告到了法庭。

　　19歲商務專業大學生Trina目睹了自己輔導過的女生Jade在車庫被撞死，但警方認為是一起意外事件。為了支付大學費用，Trina開發了一個獨特的約會APP軟件UPFRONT。在UPFRONT取得了巨大的成功之后，Trina無意中得知自己的APP被一些女生濫用為賣淫中心。正在Trina與朋友、導師商量是否需要關閉網站或者報警時，發現其中一個做應召的女生在宿舍自殺。Trina在追查兩個女生的死因的過程中，發現導師的老公竟然是Jade的常客。在準備和導師見面的過程中，發現導師被刺，最后的兇手竟然是瘋狂愛上Jade的院長。最后在合作朋友的幫助下，將院長繩之以法。

該片翻拍自2006年上映的同名日本電影，講述罹患罕見疾病——XP色素性干皮癥的女主因為皮膚不能接受陽光照射，否則將出現生命危險。從此白天與之無緣，只能終日躲在家中，唯一的樂趣也只是趁著夜晚踱到車站廣場唱著自己喜愛的歌。在這一過程中，女主漸漸喜歡上時常路過車站的沖浪男孩的愛情故事。

　　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.