女子大生

 远离家乡的租客钟不凡（彭昱畅 饰）被老房东任爹（成龙 饰）误识成离家多年的儿子，囊中羞涩的钟不凡不得不与独自漂泊的租客苏晓月 (张佳宁 饰)、斜杠中年房屋中介贾爷 (潘斌龙 饰)、对任爹关怀备至的邻居金珍姑 (李萍 饰)相聚在同一屋檐下，不是一家人，硬进一家门。当钟不凡被任爹不定时发作的糊涂折磨得死去活来时，却发现了老人深藏多年的秘密……

　　该电影以民国民俗悬疑为题材，讲述了一个二十年前的悲剧，以及二十年后的探秘之旅。在二十年前，龙二奎（由刘交心扮演）在赶山途中救助山中麻风病院，但一次误用山中药材却引发了一场悲剧。二十年后，龙二奎携带徒弟林耀山（由张倬闻扮演）等人再次踏上赶山之路，寻找未知的秘密。

　　年轻情侣波顿（Peter Horton 饰）和维姬（Linda Hamilton 饰）旅行路过内布拉斯加州盖特林镇，他们在公路上发现一具儿童尸体。为了报警，两人驱车驶入盖特林镇，却发现镇上的情况更为诡异蹊跷：这里似乎是儿童的王国，所有成人均不见踪影。孩子们全都听命于一个名叫艾塞克（John Franklin 约翰•法兰克林 饰）、自称上帝使者的小男孩。　　镇上的大人究竟哪里去了？孩子们充满恶意的眼神背后究竟隐藏着什么秘密？波顿和维姬最终能否活着走出小镇？　　本片荣获1984年布鲁塞尔国际奇幻电影节最佳奇幻电影奖。

　　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.