七度音程女人

捍卫机密

　　公元2021年，资料除了透过电脑输送外，还可利用人脑运输。专业运输员尊尼为了运送更多资料，不惜洗去自己的记忆。一次任务中，尊尼被客户输入过量资料，若他不在二十小时内找到输出密码，他便会倒毙。另一方面，日本集团为了夺取他脑内的资料，也对他展开一场大追杀。

噬童魔

　　孤儿萨曼塔，和她的养父母以及妹妹奥利弗住在一起，但是他的养父并不喜欢她，老是责骂她。由于他们的家位于森林深处，所以回家必须经过森林，但是，他们不知道森林里有树怪，他们能诱捕儿童，然后把抓到的孩子困到他们的巢穴，然后再幻化成孩子的模样，回到他们的父母身边，所以数百年来，这片森林数百年来都有儿童走失的案例，不幸的是，由于萨曼塔的疏忽，让她的妹妹独自穿过森林，然后就被树怪掳走啦，接着就发生了一连串死亡事件，那么萨曼塔一家能够逃过一劫吗？

LAST MAN-全盲搜查官- FAKE／TRUTH

　　全盲的FBI特別搜查官皆实广见（福山雅治 饰）被称为“终结一切案件的最后王牌”。他自日本研修返美后，警视厅搜查一课的护道心太朗（大泉洋 饰）前往美国受训，两人在华盛顿与纽约继续加深“无敌搭档”的默契。半年后心太朗归国，两人再次分隔两地。　　2025年，皆实因电视节目回到日本，却遭遇电视台被全副武装的恐怖分子占领。他与主播播摩美咲（松本若菜 饰）、首相五之桥义实（吉田钢太郎 饰）等人被劫持，对方威胁若拿不出10亿美元赎金，将在东京引爆炸弹，引爆前所未有的危机。得知皆实被囚的心太朗火速赶往现场，却发现负责接待皆实的佐久良（吉田羊 饰）已隐藏在内部——一场跨国搭档再度携手的极限救援正式拉开序幕。

致命录像带：超越

　　通过一部伪纪录片《未解之谜》五个故事娓娓道来：警察进入古宅寻找孩子遭遇神秘生物；一群印度狗仔队发现宝莱坞女星并非镜头般光鲜亮丽；几个朋友必须在遭遇外星人入侵之后与客机相撞的高空跳伞中幸存；动物权利组织闯进痛失爱犬的女士住宅后将经历至暗时刻；以及一位沙漠中的母亲调查莫哈韦沙漠幽浮飞船后成为飞船偷渡者……

等待方舟

　　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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