五月櫻唇

　　Tom Segura Fast-Tracking Fifth Original Netflix Special ‘Teacher’ For December Premiere

　　法國青年瑞斯（喬納森?萊斯?梅耶斯 Jonathan Rhys Meyers 飾）在大使館中工作，同時(shí)他還是美國情報(bào)部門的見習(xí)人員，精明強(qiáng)干的瑞斯對“換車牌”，加竊聽器之類的任務(wù)自然是駕輕就熟，但是他很快迎來了真正的挑戰(zhàn)——配合探員瓦克斯（約翰?特拉沃塔 John Travolta 飾）在巴黎的行動?！　⊥呖怂棺黠L(fēng)強(qiáng)硬，舉止粗暴?；腥缏嬛凶叱龅拿绹⑿?，甫一下飛機(jī)，便咬住了毒品的線索一路大開殺戒，先后與華人、巴基斯坦和黑人幫派連番激戰(zhàn)……瑞斯對神奇的瓦克斯目瞪口呆之余，也漸漸跟上了他的節(jié)奏。任務(wù)接近尾聲之時(shí)，兩人意外發(fā)現(xiàn)瑞斯居然也是恐怖分子的目標(biāo)人物之一，原來恐怖分子們以瑞斯為突破口，試圖刺殺赴法訪問的美國高官，于是這對臨時(shí)搭檔，迅速整備出發(fā)……

　　影片聚焦布魯斯·斯普林斯汀打造1982年的著名專輯《Nebraska》時(shí)期，作為年輕音樂人的他努力應(yīng)對成功的壓力，和令人困擾的過往。

　　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.