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哲学系学生肖墨到殡仪馆实习，试图探寻“生死”答案，却遭遇导师陈辉离奇死亡。村里流传一口“应声井”可让人起死回生。陈辉之子死于事故后，陈辉在古井许愿，次日离奇失踪。肖墨随神秘殡葬师老白头返村调查，老白头以科学逐一破解“灵异”现象：井中尸体、养女上吊、浓雾里的鬼打墙等怪事背后皆是精心布局的骗局。当执念遭遇科学，谎言被真相撕裂，众人方知真正的深渊不在井里，而在人心。

　　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.

1840年鸦片战争爆发，英军侵略军攻破广州，饱经鸦片毒害的百姓活在至暗时刻。萧岗士绅何玉成（严屹宽饰）受关天培之托嘱，立志寻找时机保卫广州城。 故事从三元里村武馆教头刘三义（刘秋实饰）和其兄弟韦绍光（孙昊饰）企图烧毁十三行码头的洋商趸船开始... 影片质朴还原了三元里抗英这段鲜为人知的史实，用悲壮美学与历史质感交织的视听讲述了鸦片馆血案的个人复仇，到牛栏岗生死战的民族抗争。致敬民族先辈，当外侮侵犯时，每一个挺身而出的小人物，都是照亮民族暗夜的英雄。

 近日，由北京完美建信影视出品，倪虹洁特别出演的新剧《灵魂摆渡3》曝光了剧场版《风华绝代》的两版预告。倪虹洁在剧中大胆挑战了带刺野玫瑰风格的角色。不仅身穿白裙微露大腿，还言语挑逗师傅，似是上演了一出禁忌恋情。而在另一版预告中，倪虹洁梳起“大背头”，以男装造型登场，眼尾轻挑、眼神迷离的野性风格“色诱”荧幕前的老司机。反差如此过大，网友强烈期倪虹洁上演的“双面魅力”。有着口碑和点击量双好评的《灵魂摆渡》，时隔一年终于以完结篇的形式回归荧屏。演员倪虹洁加盟《灵魂摆渡3》最受期待的剧场版《灵魂摆渡之风华绝代》，扮演了一位充满神秘色彩，而又雌雄莫变的“野玫瑰”。