妒火焚情

　　A group of teenagers in a small town discover a strange object that tests the strength of their friendship.

　　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.

　　一個誠實的科學(xué)家把死去的百萬富翁(多諾萬飾)的大腦保存在水箱里。多諾萬成功地把他強(qiáng)大的意志強(qiáng)加給這位科學(xué)家，并利用他來謀殺他的敵人。

　　家聲（林子祥 飾）已經(jīng)四十六歲了，至今仍未成家。他青梅竹馬女友麗泉（伍詠薇 飾），要求與他之間做個了斷。兩人多年來沒有結(jié)果是因為家聲是一名同性戀者。而家聲是有一名男朋友Sonny（陳小春 飾）的，但Sonny十分享受花花世界給他帶來的虛榮，這樣便使得家聲覺得十分沒有安全感，卻又對Sonny的感情越來越深?！　〖衣曇幻詰俸糜延懒乙虬滩∷廊チ?，家聲勸止永烈的男友（吳鎮(zhèn)宇 飾）不要出現(xiàn)在喪禮上，卻被Sonny從中搗亂，家聲也因此與Sonny分手了?！　〉衣晱?fù)雜的感情世界并沒有因為這樣得到解決……