奇幻曲2

　　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.

　　姐妹Nora和Agnes與疏遠的父親——魅力非凡的導演Gustav重聚。這位昔日名導試圖讓舞臺劇演員Nora參演自己寄予厚望的復出之作，卻遭女兒拒絕。Nora很快發現，父親已將她的角色轉給了一位野心勃勃的好萊塢新星。突如其來的變故迫使兩姐妹直面與父親的復雜糾葛，而這位美國明星的加入，更讓本就微妙的家庭關系陷入新的波瀾。

她離開丈夫與兒子，也離開穩定的律師工作，在泳池、露天咖啡廳與私人公寓自在游走。以寫作寄托生活，對兒子的愛未減半分，與丈夫也親如摯友，直到那日，她向丈夫吐露與女性的親密關系，完美生活旋即化為一場幻夢。在失去監護權后，她不得不在機構間穿梭，為了見兒子一面奮力一搏，卻不知這樣的困境，何時能走到盡頭？

　　哈里（阿諾?施瓦辛格 Arnold Schwarzenegger 飾）是美國FBI的高級特工，他正在奉命調查一起跨國核武器走私案件。出于安全考慮，哈里連結婚15年的妻子海倫（杰米?李?柯蒂斯 Jamie Lee Curtis 飾）都沒有告訴他的真實身份。　　海倫是一名普通白領，平凡的生活已令她心生厭倦。一次，汽車商西蒙假扮FBI特工，溜到海倫家謊稱自己被人追殺。緊張刺激的經歷很快令海倫著迷。　　這一切都沒有逃過真正的FBI特工哈里眼睛。哈里利用間諜偵查手段令到西蒙洋相百出，并化妝成法國人正欲調戲海倫時，被恐怖分子突然襲擊，兩人被挾持到一個熱帶小島。哈里和海倫最終能否逃出生天，挫敗恐怖分子陰謀？