贊美年長的女人

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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.

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自殺俱樂部2001

 夜色沉沉的東京新宿站，勞碌一天的人們依舊行色匆匆，仿佛從不知停歇的工蜂。然而卻有一群正處在青春期的女孩綻放著無憂無慮的笑容。她們身穿著不同款式的校服，似乎早已約好一般同時來到這里，女孩們在月臺前一字排開，手拉手齊齊跳向飛馳而來的列車。一時間血光四濺，54個鮮活的生命瞬間消失。 這一事件轟動全國，與此同時類似集體自殺的事件愈演愈烈，甚至連調(diào)查此案的警官黑田敏春（石橋凌 飾）及其家人也受到波及。黑田的搭檔涉澤健次（永瀬正敏 飾）通過不懈的調(diào)查，發(fā)現(xiàn)一連串的自殺事件都和一個名為“自殺俱樂部”的網(wǎng)站有關(guān)。事件的真相究竟如何？慘劇最終能否終止？

攔截火狐貍

　　It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies....

惡戰(zhàn)2025

活到最後才有繼承權(quán)資格…背叛、猜疑和貪婪交織！一場災(zāi)難性的運(yùn)鈔行動後，三噸貨物運(yùn)抵目的地，但所有現(xiàn)金卻不翼而飛，幫派內(nèi)部一片混亂。老大身亡，死於內(nèi)部背叛和謀殺，幫派的得力幹將克萊奧挺身而出，誓要揭開真相，隨著真相逐漸浮出水面，一張由背叛、猜疑和貪婪交織而成的錯綜複雜的網(wǎng)也隨之浮現(xiàn)。