北投狼人

　　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.

 影片由一系列音樂(lè)片斷構(gòu)成，由擅長(zhǎng)歌舞巨片的馬克·桑德里區(qū)執(zhí)導(dǎo)。其中每一首插曲都以美國(guó)的節(jié)假日為線索，又都巧妙地集中到一對(duì)情敵的身上。本片獲1943年第15屆奧斯卡最佳編劇和最佳音樂(lè)獎(jiǎng)提名！一家開(kāi)設(shè)在公路邊的旅館，兩個(gè)年輕的合伙人哈迪和海諾沃同時(shí)愛(ài)上了一位姑娘。海諾沃（由著名舞蹈家弗雷德·阿斯泰爾飾）盡管在愛(ài)情的追逐中連連占先，但最終還是敗給了哈迪（由著名歌星賓·克羅斯比飾）。哈迪是位酷愛(ài)音樂(lè)的懶散的人，他退休回到新英格蘭農(nóng)村，每逢節(jié)假日，他的農(nóng)場(chǎng)就成了娛樂(lè)總會(huì)……

　　為了找尋失蹤的叔叔，年輕人自己設(shè)計(jì)了地心探險(xiǎn)船,卻被人剽竊,結(jié)果只能接受事實(shí),因?yàn)樯倘舜饝?yīng)讓他帶隊(duì)去尋找失落的文明。 然而商人手里有一塊神秘碎片，如果他找到其余碎片就可以擁有強(qiáng)大的力量。另一部分傳說(shuō)在地心，在那里也有一個(gè)世界，于是他贊助一些科學(xué)家去地心做科學(xué)研究，其實(shí)是為了實(shí)現(xiàn)他的野心，科學(xué)家們乘坐年輕人發(fā)明的有大鉆頭的飛船到了地心，在那里他們發(fā)現(xiàn)有原始人，通過(guò)他們的壁畫知道他們的祖先是從地上順著火山口進(jìn)到地心的,他們還結(jié)交了白色的人形怪物并成為朋友。然而在這里還有一個(gè)身上插了很多導(dǎo)管，管子里流淌著綠色液體的邪惡統(tǒng)治者，整個(gè)地心世界由他控制....

　　一個(gè)商業(yè)酒店因?yàn)槿痣x奇死亡案件被社會(huì)各界所關(guān)注，一時(shí)間流言四起，有人說(shuō)這是蓄意謀殺，也有人認(rèn)為純屬意外，甚至網(wǎng)絡(luò)上有神人稱酒店施工曾挖出八具棺材，地形暗合了一個(gè)叫“八棺索財(cái)”的道家陣法。記者蘇莉、女網(wǎng)紅與其老公陳宇天，兩撥看似不相干的人組成奇葩小分隊(duì)，一起走進(jìn)詭異酒店，等著他們的，是福還是禍？