密室中的少女

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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.

養(yǎng)鬼吃人2

  第一集中，少女克莉斯蒂（Ashley Laurence 飾）的家庭遭受魔鬼賽諾貝斯的摧殘，親人相繼死亡，她本人也被送入精神病院治療。除了醫(yī)生助手凱爾（William Hope 飾）外，沒人相信克莉斯蒂的離奇故事。當(dāng)瘋狂的醫(yī)生菲利普?切諾德（Kenneth Cranham 飾）從助手口中得知少女的經(jīng)歷后，他決定將惡魔重新帶回人間。業(yè)已死亡的繼母朱莉（Clare Higgins 飾），在這個(gè)變態(tài)狂人的喂養(yǎng)下再次復(fù)活……

詛咒：納扎爾

攻克柏林

　　Mikheil Chiaureli是斯大林的御用導(dǎo)演，《攻克柏林》長(zhǎng)達(dá)近五個(gè)小時(shí)，分上下兩部，處處著重突出最高統(tǒng)帥的高瞻遠(yuǎn)矚。影片結(jié)尾，斯大林乘飛機(jī)抵達(dá)陷落的柏林，接受蘇軍的歡呼。其實(shí)這是“藝術(shù)虛構(gòu)”。和《斯大林格勒戰(zhàn)役》一樣，這場(chǎng)實(shí)際主要由朱可夫?qū)④娭笓]的戰(zhàn)役，影片中絲毫沒有他的影子。當(dāng)時(shí)朱可夫已經(jīng)因?yàn)楣Ω哒鹬?，被羅織罪名，發(fā)配到烏拉爾軍區(qū)去了，這是1946年的事。這部1949年的電影很自然地就將朱可夫的功勞“藝術(shù)虛構(gòu)”到偉大領(lǐng)袖的頭上了?！　∫?yàn)檫@部影片，導(dǎo)演連續(xù)獲得了兩次國(guó)家獎(jiǎng)金，包括1950年的斯大林獎(jiǎng)金。中國(guó)觀眾熟悉的《難忘的1919》（1952）也是出自這位導(dǎo)演的手筆。值得一提的是，這兩部影片都是由蘇聯(lián)作曲家肖斯塔科維奇譜曲的。

瘟疫

　　故事圍繞一名患有社交焦慮的十二歲少年展開。在男子水球夏令營(yíng)的殘酷社交法則中掙扎求生時(shí)，他那青春期特有的不安，隨著夏日推移竟發(fā)酵成一場(chǎng)撕裂靈魂的心理酷刑。