金翅鳥之夢

 美麗的高中女孩露比·羅西（艾米莉亞·瓊斯 Emilia Jones 飾）出生于一個極不尋常的漁民家庭，她的父母和哥哥天生聾啞，只能通過手語交流。而健康無恙的露比既是幸運的，卻也是不幸的。她擔任了家人和外界交流溝通的橋梁，為此承受了諸多的歧視和嘲笑。這期間，只有好閨蜜戈蒂（艾米·福賽思 Amy Forsyth 飾）是她最堅定的支撐。因為喜歡男孩邁爾斯（福迪亞·瓦爾什-匹羅 Ferdia Walsh-Peelo 飾），露比報名參加校合唱團，而天資穎悟的很快得到了負責老師的賞識。在此之后，露比頻繁奔波于合唱團和家族之間，她渴望前往伯克利追求音樂夢想，而這勢必要和對她無比依賴的原生家庭分隔兩地。露比為此深深焦慮……本片根據真實事件改編。

　　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.

 該片劇本排2018年好萊塢“劇本黑名單”第二，講述理查德·威廉姆斯的真實故事，這位精明務實、不屈不撓、沒有任何網球背景的父親培養 出了兩個網球天才，她們后來成了超級巨星——維納斯·威廉姆斯和塞雷娜·威廉姆斯(大威小威)。理查德·威廉姆斯為女兒們的職業網球生涯起草了一份78頁的計劃，女孩們在康普頓破舊、雜草叢生的公共球場上學會了這項運動。據報道，在那之前，她們的父親與一些不喜歡這項運動、不肯讓位的年輕硬漢發生了爭執。威廉姆斯姐妹后來成為了網球史上最偉大的女選手之二。

　　一個現代王國Illyria的公主Sam，性格叛逆，是王位的第二繼承人。正當Sam對王位的漠不關心值達到人生新高時，她驚訝地發現自己有超能力，而且屬于一個長期以來偷偷摸摸保護全國和平的秘密組織。影片聚焦Sam的歷險：她加入了這個屬于最高機密的訓練項目，目的是訓練皇室的次子女們來肩負拯救世界的任務。