短暫變大之膚

　　曾經(jīng)的約翰（盧克·威爾遜 Luke Wilson 飾）是一名風(fēng)光無限的商人，偌大的豪宅，漂亮的妻子，可愛的女兒，當(dāng)金融危機(jī)爆發(fā)之時(shí)，約翰所擁有的這令人羨慕的一切都在轉(zhuǎn)瞬間成為了巨大的負(fù)擔(dān)，他和妻子之間原本美滿的感情也產(chǎn)生了裂痕。　　經(jīng)歷了糟糕的一天后，約翰拖著疲憊的身軀回到家，這時(shí)，一個(gè)名叫里奇（塞繆爾·杰克遜 Samuel L. Jackson 飾）的陌生人攔住了約翰，希望得到他的幫助。讓約翰沒有想到的是，里奇竟然是一名殺手，可是，里奇卻并沒有殺死約翰，正相反，在莫名其妙之中，約翰和里奇一同踏上了一段充滿了鮮血和殺戮的恐怖旅程。隨著時(shí)間的推移，約翰漸漸開始懷疑，他和里奇之間的相遇究竟是偶然還是必然。

　　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.

　　曾經(jīng)叱咤小鎮(zhèn)的“大哥”黃榮發(fā)（黃渤 飾）如今嘴硬腿軟，開啟人生困難模式，但他和家人都沒有被命運(yùn)的風(fēng)浪裹挾。兒子黑狗達(dá)（范丞丞 飾）看似是黃家唯一“淡人”，暗地卻密謀如何發(fā)家又“治父”；妻子陳梨珍（殷桃 飾）樣樣全能橫掃困難，是小鎮(zhèn)人盡皆知不太好惹的“媽系超人”；膽大手“黑”的女兒黃嬌嬌（李嘉琦 飾）和“神”通廣大的阿太（劉雪華 飾）也各出奇招笑料百出。逆境當(dāng)前，一家唯有興“瘋”作浪跟生活貼臉硬剛，沒準(zhǔn)真能讓他們絕地翻盤？