蛇蝎美人心 (2000)

“廢柴”大齡男人顧大池繼承了父親的“遺產(chǎn)”：一家破二手書店。他決定用一個夏天把書店變現(xiàn)，由此認識了復讀女孩蔡小心，他們整理書賣書，把面包車改成“移動書房”上路，直到發(fā)現(xiàn)了父親藏在書里的“寶藏”……很快，夏天就這么過去了。

　　本片改編自Jonathan Penner小說《The Bridge To Body Island》。講述的是三個大學生，特雷弗·梅西,杰弗里·索羅斯和西蒙·赫斯曼在校外無意間釋放出一種超自然實體的故事，凱瑞·安-莫斯、費·唐娜薇等影星傾力加盟。

　　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.

　　1945年抗戰(zhàn)勝利前夕，侵華日軍第七三一部隊在哈爾濱平房區(qū)以“給水防疫”為名，秘密進行慘無人道的細菌戰(zhàn)研究，大肆抓捕平民進行活體實驗，妄圖以此扭轉(zhuǎn)敗局。小販王永章（姜武 飾）等人被強行抓入“特設監(jiān)獄”，日軍以“配合健康檢查與防疫研究即可換取自由”的虛偽承諾，欺騙他們遭受凍傷實驗、毒氣實驗、活體解剖等極端折磨……　　影片通過平民視角揭露日軍反人類暴行，展現(xiàn)絕境下國人不屈的反抗精神，旨在讓世人銘記歷史，勿忘國恥，捍衛(wèi)和平。