义母小情人

　　从小失去双亲的玛丽娜18岁了，为了申请奖学金，她必须离开养父母，前往大西洋海岸，从她从未谋面的祖父母处获得签名。新姨妈、叔叔、堂亲，她在众多新家人间周旋，不确定自己是会被接纳还是排斥。这段旅途唤醒了玛丽娜尘封已久的情感，揭开家族往昔的隐秘创伤，她由此拼凑起那些支离破碎、往往矛盾的记忆碎片，试图重现她几乎遗忘的父母身影。

 婚礼前几天，一对情侣无意中发现彼此的秘密，亲密关系面临考验，令结婚计划骤然生变。暗黑秘密如何一发不可收拾？各种反应又引致怎样翻天覆地的后果？原定又浪漫又幸福的结婚计划，还可以进行吗？

　　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.

　　太阳党是一个恐怖组织，其首领救世主（林国斌 饰）善于开发战争机器人，他和女友玛利亚（叶倩文 饰）经常利用自己开发的机器人“先锋一号”大肆破坏。由于“先锋一号”威力强大，警方也常常束手无策。小徐原是英雄党的一分子，后来对自己团伙的所作所为深感不满而在师傅的担保下脱离了该组织。一次小徐在酒吧偶遇了专为警方开发战争机器人的专家阿毛（岑建勋 饰），两人一见如故，成为了好朋友。岂料太阳党因此怀疑小徐出卖了自己，因此派出新研制的机器人——外形和玛利亚一模一样的“先锋二号”追杀小徐；更糟糕的是，警方亦因此怀疑阿毛出卖了政府，因而同时派人前来捉捕他们。一对好兄弟，能否逃出生天？