不足之處

　　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.

　　突尼斯導演考塞爾·本·哈尼亞將把巴勒斯坦六歲女童欣德·拉賈布的悲劇搬上銀幕。2024年1月29日，欣德乘坐的車輛在加沙遭以色列軍隊襲擊，她被困車中通過電話絕望求救，12天后被發(fā)現(xiàn)與家人一同遇難。影片將追溯這通生死未卜的求救通話背后，一個幼小生命在戰(zhàn)爭廢墟中的最后時刻。                        

　　德華（劉德華飾）喜歡打牌，以打牌為生的他出名好牌技好牌品，與他相戀多年的詠琪（梁詠琪飾）因為牌品差，始終沒能與德華結(jié)為連理，令她頓足。德華的弟弟天樂（古天樂飾）知道哥哥要以打牌為生養(yǎng)活患有癡呆癥的母親和正在讀書的自己，決定跟青云（劉青云飾）打牌比試，誰知連連落敗。　　一次牌局中，詠琪不甘被德華以牌品的問題多次推搪婚約，便咀咒他從此“一世摸爛牌”，跟著同樣拜師不成的青云離開了。　　咀咒真的靈驗了，使德華家道中落，但一向樂觀的他深信自己的“好朋友”會回來的。在弟弟公司舉行的麻將大賽中一路穩(wěn)打穩(wěn)扎，與青云再次對壘，最后能否獲勝呢？

　　九個朋友，去森林露營過程中他們經(jīng)歷了一個瘋狂的奪命之夜。派對醒來時，九個人胸前綁著自殺式炸彈，倒計時鐘上都有不同的時間。當他們發(fā)現(xiàn)可以通過殺死對方來“占用”對方的時間時，自相殘殺開始了。