金瓶風(fēng)月

　　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.

　　當(dāng)一名護(hù)士同事在神秘的情況下死亡后，兩名巡回護(hù)士必須撥開醫(yī)院里重重秘密迷宮，才能揭露兇手。

　　在孔雀鎮(zhèn)的鐵路旁邊，生活著一個(gè)有著灰暗過(guò)去的男子——約翰·斯基爾帕（希里安·墨菲 Cillian Murphy 飾），他自幼在母親的淫威下長(zhǎng)大，由此養(yǎng)成了壓抑自閉的性格。在母親去世后，約翰的人格分裂，其內(nèi)心生出象征母性的女子埃瑪。約翰就這樣在男女兩個(gè)身份間轉(zhuǎn)換，過(guò)著平靜而扭曲的隱蔽生活。　　某個(gè)清晨，災(zāi)禍突然降臨。一個(gè)火車頭脫軌闖入約翰家的院子，正在晾曬衣物的埃瑪受到驚嚇，并且出現(xiàn)在小鎮(zhèn)人民的面前。人們對(duì)此議論紛紛，約翰則希望盡快將火車頭清除院子，然而政客們卻打算以此作為政治斗爭(zhēng)的砝碼。面對(duì)種種混亂的局面，約翰和埃瑪?shù)男闹薪箲]重重，他們的矛盾也漸次激化……

　　帶著過(guò)往傷痛，塞吉?dú)W只身一人前往「微笑之村」擔(dān)任代理教師。這座對(duì)負(fù)能量零容忍的小鎮(zhèn)，明明曾遭逢巨變，居民們卻笑口常開。原來(lái)，讓這座微笑之村風(fēng)光明媚的秘方，是一位能吸取人間苦痛的男孩，他的身體如祭壇，透過(guò)擁抱承擔(dān)全村的悲傷。他為人搭建快樂(lè)天堂，自己卻陷入無(wú)盡黑暗。塞吉?dú)W與男孩的相遇，攪亂了鎮(zhèn)上的平衡；那座煉獄之門，也終將反向人間敞開。