荷里活性女大全 Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003)

地方から上京してマンガ家を目指すヒロインが戀に仕事に奮闘する本作。原作は実體験をもとにした香穂のマンガ「俺とSEXすれば売れる」だ。エロい中年マンガ家や若いアシスタントに次々と手を出す中堅マンガ家など、危うい先輩たちに囲まれながら向上心を保ち邁進(jìn)していく主人公?香穂をミスFLASH2022 セミファイナリストの青山泰菜が演じた。

　　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.

馬諾哈拉·K在13歲時就憑借在影片《鐵路少年》中的出色表演榮獲印度國家電影獎最佳兒童演員獎。如今，二十出頭的馬諾哈拉初執(zhí)導(dǎo)筒，將女作家索尼婭·S的獲獎自傳小說搬上銀幕，講述了一個白化病女孩的成長之路。片中，來自貧困家庭的索尼婭因為白化病在學(xué)校受到歧視和敵意，父親置若罔聞、母親有心但無力，她只能依靠自己。導(dǎo)演并沒有向索尼婭投去同情目光，而是帶著一定距離感去呈現(xiàn)她的處境，成功塑造了一個勇敢、樂天的女孩如何接納自己并讓白化病這個“缺點”成為特點。

　　亞歷克斯（摩根·弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 飾）是一名資歷豐富的警探，這一次，他被派遣負(fù)責(zé)國會議員女兒被綁架一案。杰姬（莫妮卡·波特 Monica Potter 飾）是負(fù)責(zé)保護(hù)被綁架女孩安全的特工，正為了自己的疏忽和失職自責(zé)不已，趁此機(jī)會，她強(qiáng)烈要求成為亞歷克斯的搭檔，一同偵破此案?！　‰S著調(diào)查的深入，一個名為加里（邁克爾·溫科特 Michael Wincott 飾）的男人浮出了水面，除了綁架了議員的女兒，他還和城中發(fā)生的數(shù)起綁架案有著千絲萬縷的聯(lián)系。亞歷克斯和杰姬隨即展開了歲加里的追捕，然而，老奸巨猾的加里并不會輕易的被警方捕獲，恰恰相反，在不知不覺間，亞歷克斯走入了加里所設(shè)下的彌天陷阱之中。