通奸的味道

　　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.

　　克洛伊（德魯·巴里摩爾 Drew Barrymore 配音）是比佛利山的一只吉娃娃狗，被寵壞了的它生活極其奢侈。主人薇薇姑媽（杰米·李·柯蒂斯 Jamie Lee Curtis 飾）要出遠(yuǎn)門，把照顧克洛伊的任務(wù)交給了安吉拉（愛(ài)莉·希爾斯 Ali Hillis 飾）。安吉拉帶著克洛伊和朋友們一起去墨西哥的海灘旅行。來(lái)到海灘， 姑娘們立即被健碩英俊的小伙子們吸引了，而克洛伊則在安吉拉的“重色輕狗”下，走失于碩大的墨西哥城中。那些簡(jiǎn)陋的街道看起來(lái)跟比佛利山大相徑庭。無(wú)奈之下，克洛伊只得求助于一些新朋友，包括一只經(jīng)歷復(fù)雜的德國(guó)牧羊犬戴戈多（安迪·加西亞 Andy Garcia 飾），和一只多情的小狗帕皮（喬治·洛佩茲 George Lopez 飾），克洛伊在它們的幫助下，振作精神找尋回家的路......

　　萬(wàn)圣節(jié)之夜，一位少女劇作家、她的弟弟和一群幸存者被困在一個(gè)可怕的村莊里：一群有著生命的南瓜開始攻擊人類，而這件事似乎在這個(gè)村莊的歷史上發(fā)生過(guò)。

　　陳文?。ê榻饘?飾）和張定其（張學(xué)友 飾）只是警隊(duì)中的無(wú)名小卒，卻在機(jī)緣巧合之下被指派到神探（姜大衛(wèi) 飾）手下助其偵破“千面人”之案。沒(méi)想到，一場(chǎng)意外中神探不幸喪生，可是，心愿未了的他顯然不愿就此歸去，而是化為冤魂，纏上了陳文俊和張定其兩人，要他們破案為自己報(bào)仇?！　∩裉酵{陳文俊，若不幫他報(bào)仇，就要破壞他和女友喬娜（王祖賢 飾）之間的姻緣。經(jīng)不住神探的死纏爛打和卑鄙威脅，個(gè)性膽小怕事的陳文俊只能答應(yīng)下來(lái)。就這樣，陳文俊和張定其開始了對(duì)案件的追查，在神探的暗中幫助下，他們最終將罪犯捉拿歸案，陳文俊和喬娜亦有情人終成眷屬。