白太陽

本片改編自同名漫畫，講述了以當紅年輕演員的身分開始邁向明星之路的柊木昴（八木勇征 飾），以及他青梅竹馬的女高中生天野千明（福本莉子 飾），有著“明星和素人”這種令人著急的關系的超王道愛情故事。

 影片講述邁克爾·杰克遜在音樂之外的人生旅程，從他以杰克遜五人組主唱之姿被發掘出驚人天賦的那一刻起，直到他成為一位極具遠見的藝人，他以無窮無盡的創作能力激勵自己成為全世界最偉大的娛樂巨星。這部電影同時呈現邁克爾·杰克遜舞臺之外的真實人生，并且重現他早期個人演藝生涯中最具代表性的經典表演，這部電影為觀眾提供最貼近的視角，以前所未見的方式窺探這位流行天王的內心世界。他的故事就此展開。

　　19歲的少年賽斯·戴維斯（吉奧瓦尼·瑞比西 Giovanni Ribisi飾）一心希望能盡快淘到自己的第一桶金，好讓父親另眼相看。他本打算靠玩非法紙牌起家，卻發現此路根本行不通，直到一家名為J.T.馬林經紀公司的股票經紀商找上了賽維斯。　　在這個號稱“鍋爐房”的核心辦公室里，多少個一夜間成為百萬富翁的故事深深誘惑著賽維斯。很快，野心勃勃的賽維斯便以優異的成績通過了股票經濟人認證考試，開始了他的“成功之路”。他把那些永遠都沒有前途的股票賣給利欲熏心的投資者。賽維斯正以極危險的速度追逐著金錢與利益，靠近著他所謂的功成名就，貪婪而不安。在紐約長島這個瞬息萬變的商業圈里，良心未泯的賽維斯終于開始面對良心的考驗。

　　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.