交换朋友的妻子

　　改編自著名推理作家南希．皮卡德於《紐約時報》的暢銷同名小說　　過往的父母雙屍命案,因為殺人兇手出獄而再度成為喬蒂的噩夢,她被迫再次審視那道往日的傷痕,並且身不由己地反覆被仇恨啃噬…而家族秘辛也隨著時間過去,重新露出面目,要讓所有人都付出代價…。

　　阿里（福里斯特·惠特克 Forest Whitaker 饰）和母亲是从曾经惨绝人寰的种族屠杀中幸免于难的幸存者，虽然如今的他已然出人头地成为了开普敦警局重案组的负责人，但儿时充满了血腥和恐惧的回忆依然沉淀在他的内心之中，阴影挥之不去。　　布莱恩（奥兰多·布鲁姆 Orlando Bloom 饰）是阿里的下属，他的家族成员曾经是种族隔离活动中的激进分子，不过这并没能够影响到他和阿里之间的信任和友谊。一连串凶杀案的发生和一种新型毒品的出现将城市推到了风口浪尖，直到这时，肩负着巨大压力的阿里才发现，那些他以为已经成为过去的事情，其实并没有真正的过去，也永远都不会过去。

　　第一次出国的艾莉西亚从加州到了南美，并和表姐的朋友们一起，踏上了一段远离城市的旅程。然而表姐半途有事而返，留下她与三个陌生人。这三个陌生人中，一个是时不时做出奇怪举动，说话不顾后果，甚至有虐 待倾向的同性恋，一个是郁郁寡欢，总是板着面孔，似乎对艾莉西亚做的任何事都不满意的大姐，还有一个是表姐那个看起来虽然友善，却痴迷于催眠术的男朋友。面对陌生的国度，奇怪的人，空荡的房间，狂野的世界，艾莉西亚脆弱的神经不断受到挑战。失眠、梦魇、幻觉带来了焦虑、惊恐、不安，艾莉西亚要怎样走完这一段旅程，又是否能脱离险境?

　　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？

　　神秘孤岛上只有一座何家古堡，以前死过很多人。半瘫少女何思怡（李庚希 饰）离家17年后归来，父亲却离奇失踪，迎接她的是美艳温柔的继母（邓家佳 饰）、风度翩翩的私人医生（黄晓明 饰）、年轻健硕的司机（刘奕铁 饰）和万般贴心的女佣等人。这一切看似平静，但不时响起的古怪声音，似有若无的血腥气味，似乎都藏着这座古堡不可言说的秘密，一步步将这家人 拖入万劫不复的深渊，一场蓄谋已久的复仇大戏渐渐拉开帷幕……

　　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.