年輕漂亮的繼母

　　The son of an African-American Judge is killed by police officers on the day he was set to begin law enforcement academy. When the courts clear the officers of wrongdoing, the Judge must decide whether the courts are the only arbitrators of justice.

　　50年代，美國拍了《原子怪獸》，日本拍了《哥斯拉》，50年代末期英國又趁熱打鐵拍了《海底巨獸》。1961年又和米高梅合拍了《巨獸格果》。　　《巨獸格果》不像其他怪獸電影那樣，怪獸開頭都是神龍見首不見尾，最后城市大戰時露個全身。本片中怪獸破壞的鏡頭完完全全的展現在觀眾面前，拆了倫敦塔橋，還推到了大本鐘。最后全憑兩雙大腳一路踩爆房屋，磚瓦四濺，相當過癮。本片講述了人類抓到了一只可愛的小怪獸——格果，然后把它關進馬戲團里，哪知道后來把怪獸老娘惹來了…

　　保護地球、維護和平，奧特曼對于地球人來說曾經是神一樣的存在，但是近幾十年，他卻消失不見行蹤成謎……隨之取替他的是鋼鐵飛龍精銳小分隊——隸屬于GSB地球安全保衛組織。而GSB近期不斷收到地球能源異常報告，全球各地紛紛出現巨大災難。GSB組織派出鋼鐵飛龍，查明能源異常原因，卻意外發現事件與奧特曼有關系……新舊兩代地球守護者的意外相見，卻成為你死我活的敵對雙方。到底，這是一場意外還是一場陰謀，是誰看到了最后的事實真相？

　　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.