八犬傳 八犬伝 (2024)

不可饒恕1992

　　堪薩斯的農民威廉（克林特·伊斯特伍德 Clint Eastwood ）年輕時曾是出名的殺手和劫匪，然而當遇上了克勞迪亞后，他的生活開始徹底改變。威廉和克勞迪亞結婚生子后，洗手不干，一家人過著幸福的生活。好景不長，克勞迪亞不久故去，威廉獨立帶著兩個孩子過著清貧寧靜的生活。　　這時，該地區發生了一起牛仔醉酒毆打妓女并將其毀容的惡性事件，壞蛋警長達格特（吉恩·哈克曼 Gene Hackman 飾）只將此事草草了結，兇手仍逍遙法外。當地妓女紛紛捐錢，要求懸紅1000美金請殺手來伸張正義。“思科菲爾德小子”找到威廉，要求合伙干這票買賣。為了給孩子們一個幸福富足的家庭，威廉終于答應再次出山。

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　　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.

赤腳大仙

春閨風月

 故事發生在車水馬龍的大都市紐約，杰瑞（加里·格蘭特 Cary Grant 飾）和露西（艾琳·鄧恩 Irene Dunne 飾）是一對感情十分要好的夫妻，兩人時常結伴出入上流人士所舉辦的高端晚宴之中，生活極盡奢華，但隨著時間的推移，這表面幸福的婚姻生活終究還是出現了裂痕，杰瑞和露西決定離婚。在兩人分開之后，杰瑞邂逅了富有而又美麗的遺孀芭芭拉（莫莉·拉蒙特 Molly Lamont 飾），露西則傍上了石油大亨丹尼爾（拉爾夫·貝拉米 Ralph Bellamy 飾），可尋找到了各自幸福的兩人卻并不能相安無事，正相反，他們開始想方設法的破壞和阻撓對方的情感關系，就此引出了一系列荒誕可笑的意外。