迷恋1981

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.

赤脚大仙

隐藏杀手

　　一个异形在美国流窜，为了得到它想要的，它杀掉所有挡它路的人，并且用他们的身体作为新的藏身之所，它不断追寻的是生命的能量，然而另一个借用了一个死去的FBI探员身体的异形对它紧追不舍，无数无辜的人们在这场追击中丧生

未来学大会

　　曾经名噪一时的女明星罗宾·怀特（罗宾·怀特 Robin Wright 饰）早已过气，45岁的她因为执拗和任性毁掉的很多机会，也让公司老板杰夫（丹尼·赫斯顿 Danny Huston 饰）渐渐失去了耐心。杰夫逼迫她签下演员生涯最后一份合约，从此罗宾的名字和三维扫描后的虚拟 形象只能出现在公司的展示墙上和数字时代的电影中。罗宾起初极度抵制，但在经纪人艾尔（哈威·凯特尔 Harvey Keitel 饰）的竭力劝说下，同时考虑到儿子亚伦（柯蒂·斯密特-麦菲 Kodi Smit-McPhee 饰）的状况，这个倔强的女人选择妥协。20年后，罗宾驱车前往亚伯拉荷马参加未来学大会，而那里是一个全动画封锁区。以动画形象示人的罗宾将经历一次难忘的旅程……　　本片根据波兰科幻、哲学、未来学作家斯坦尼斯拉夫·莱姆的短篇小说改编。

字母杀手

　　纽约，一名女童在登上一辆汽车后遇害身亡，女警梅根（艾丽莎·杜什库 Eliza Dushku 饰）调查此案，她敏锐的意识到被害女童的姓与名以及案发地三者的首字母相同，但除此之外毫无线索，梅根为查案用尽办法，然而却一无所获，反而梅根本人的精神压力日渐累积，她开始看到被害女童的幻影，终于精力不支甚至选择自杀，最后不得不接受精神治疗。两年后，再次有符合首字母规律的女童被害案件发生，此时的梅根不顾上司反对，再次介入调查，她和搭档在排查多位嫌疑人的同时，这位针对女童的“首字母杀手”作案愈发频繁。梅根究竟能否拼贴出凶手的真相？　　本片根据真实案件改编。