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等待方舟

　　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.

地獄無淚

逃離地下天堂

 西元2274年人類居住在由電腦控制的城市中，在這個(gè)城市中無優(yōu)無慮，可自由毫無拘束的追求享樂；但到30歲時(shí)每一個(gè)人必須接受考驗(yàn)，一個(gè)探究永恒、重生的試煉……

四十而惑

　　《一夜大肚》中的夫妻皮特（保羅·路德 Paul Rudd 飾）與黛比（萊斯利·曼恩 Leslie Mann 飾）如今年過四十，雖然黛比已經(jīng)擁有一個(gè)不錯(cuò)的精品店，皮特也開了自己的唱片公司，然而生活的暗礁還是漸漸圍困了這個(gè)家庭：不僅皮特開始需要借助“偉哥”，兩人的父母也年歲漸衰，需要供養(yǎng)，皮特的唱片店近來也在艱難維系，兩個(gè)還在上學(xué)的女兒更是每天把家里弄得雞飛狗跳。夫妻二人深感走入了愛情墳?zāi)沟耐瑫r(shí)，連生活的激情與樂趣也將要被消磨殆盡。黛比在與朋友談心之后，終于決定要挽救自己的婚姻，而此時(shí)，她已經(jīng)懷上了皮特的第三個(gè)孩子……　　本片為導(dǎo)演在2007年的喜劇電影《一夜大肚》的一個(gè)獨(dú)立續(xù)集。

皮附

　　Six people bound together by a traumatic experience decide to round off a year of group therapy in style. They join each other once more, traveling up to the Scottish Lowlands for a reunion weekend in a 1970s holiday let. Soon a number of mysterious and horrifying events start to expose the cracks in their relationships, and one by one they discover that trust runs but skin-deep. A night of closure turns out to be far more final than they could have anticipated.