Kulong

　　Camiel Borgman突然出现在某个富有的郊区，敲响了一户小康之家的大门。他是谁？他代表梦想、魔鬼、讽喻，还是代表了我们的恐惧？

　　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.

　　特警队教官欧仁近来诸事不顺，而偏偏警队又突然空降了一个培训生乔汉娜，这个一心想成为法国特警队第一位女警官的培训生就像一颗定时炸弹，她给特警队惹了千奇百怪、层出不穷的麻烦，但每次都歪打正着，和队友一起出色完成各类高难度任务……

　　典型都市女性Diana（郑裕玲 饰）有着骄人的事业成绩，也积极经营着自己的爱情。可是香港经济不景气，她与同公司的小职员韦大汉（曾志伟 饰）都在了裁员的名单上。韦大汉早年妻子因为好赌离家出走，丢下了女儿千华（杨千嬅 饰）及小儿子万华需要供养。他向儿女隐瞒自己已经被解雇的事实，可是Diana的出现让千华及弟弟都知道了爸爸的真实情况。原来Diana的出现是想跟他们参加一个家庭制的游戏，只有胜出游戏，电视台便会原价收购他们的负资产业。Diana是一个自私冷酷的人，在游戏的过程中，被大汉付出在儿女身上的感情而改变了她。千华也在游戏中与导演（陈奕迅 饰）产生了感情。游戏最终由他们胜出，可是千华亲生母亲的出现使局面彻底改变了……