桃色假期

　　本片改编自Jonathan Penner小说《The Bridge To Body Island》。讲述的是三个大学生，特雷弗·梅西,杰弗里·索罗斯和西蒙·赫斯曼在校外无意间释放出一种超自然实体的故事，凯瑞·安-莫斯、费·唐娜薇等影星倾力加盟。

　　年末的横滨消防通信指令中心异常繁忙，事故、疾病、火灾与各种纠纷不断。此时，是否引入“AI指令员”取代人工的议题引发内部对立。除夕夜突发大规模停电，全市混乱、报警激增，指令员们在极限状态中持续接警与指挥救援。作品描绘他们直面困难时坚持工作的理由，以及“拯救他人”这一行为的真正意义。城市陷入黑暗，他们必须用仅存的“声音”守护生命。

　　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.

　　同居男友许一恒遭遇事业难关，此时女友成心不但发现自己怀了孕，还获知许一恒跟闺蜜马可好上了，而马可家境殷实，能够帮助他渡过绝境。成心因为深爱，选择成全，离开许一恒，并做了人流手术，不料这胎儿竟成了“婴灵”点点。后来点点决定“带走”成心，慧化大师用佛法感化点点，并将其“交给了佛”。不久成心再受邪祟之扰，点点冒险回来搭救，也还原了真相……借此告诫切莫轻易堕胎，佛门有曰“五逆重罪”，堕胎必是冤孽。