公平競爭

　　自從他的愛妻12年前在海地大地震發(fā)生時(shí)不幸死于難產(chǎn)之后，維克多·菲爾?。ㄐ∪R斯利·奧多姆 Leslie Odom Jr. 飾）就一個(gè)人獨(dú)自撫養(yǎng)他們的女兒安吉拉（莉婭·朱厄特 Lidya Jewett 飾）。　　但是當(dāng)安吉拉和她的好友凱瑟琳（奧利維亞·馬庫姆 Olivia Marcum 飾）在樹林中消失不見，三天后卻又突然回家，完全不記得自己發(fā)生了什么事情之后，就引發(fā)了一連串的詭異事件，迫使維克多不得不面對有邪惡力量作祟的可能性，于是他出于絕望和恐懼，就向唯一親眼目睹這種事卻仍然活著的人求助：克莉絲·麥尼爾（艾倫·伯斯汀 Ellen Burstyn 飾）。

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　　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.

　　改編自叔叔杰西·祖拉斯基(Jerzy Zulawski)的科幻小說杰作《月球三部曲》，故事描述人類逃離毀滅的地球，飛船墜落在銀色星球上，不久后有人開始在星球上進(jìn)行造神運(yùn)動(dòng)，然信徒分化后一派奉此外來政權(quán)為神，另一派則視之為魔，人性貪婪的劣根性，在這星球上暴露的一覽無遺……　　本片被譽(yù)為是“一部拍給另一個(gè)世界的人看的電影”。影評人一致推崇這部片是導(dǎo)演安德烈·祖拉斯基電影生涯中，最具史觀、野心勃勃且兼具后現(xiàn)代主義的科幻哲思電影，也是他重回故鄉(xiāng)波蘭拍攝的歸鄉(xiāng)代表作。　　這部充滿爭議的杰作，安德烈以非常風(fēng)格化又帶著原始情欲的方式，傳達(dá)其所鐘愛的命題：一則后現(xiàn)代主義式的寓言。故事的結(jié)局，地球人不但改變原本的內(nèi)在，連外在也慢慢變成介于人與鳥的中間物種。這種由內(nèi)而外，進(jìn)而轉(zhuǎn)化成另一物種的隱喻，也為這部猶如政治寓言的科幻史詩，更添加了奇幻色彩?！　?977年當(dāng)影片拍好八成時(shí)，新上任的波蘭文化助理大臣禁止此片拍攝，并下令銷毀場景、布置和服裝，直到1986年波蘭民主化，本片才跟著其它禁片出土。本片同時(shí)也發(fā)掘了戛納影后克里斯提娜·楊達(dá)的潛能，拍攝這部處女作不久，她成為基耶斯洛夫斯基及瓦伊達(dá)最喜愛的女演員，也成為波蘭的國民影后。