禁忌之欲

　　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.

　　改编自《纳粹与精神病医生》，聚焦二战结尾，纽伦堡法庭对德国劳工阵线领导人罗伯特·莱伊的审判(其后来在狱中自杀)，以被委任来对纳粹头领们进行评估的美军精神科医生Douglas Kelley的视角展开。

　　《职场大翻身》改编自李慧林的同名小说，曾执导过《创可贴》的导演郑基勋亲自改写了剧本并执导，联同演技级人马演员郑在泳、新生代人气女星朴宝英、老戏骨吴达秀、裴成宇、柳德焕等实力派连袂主演。电影讲述一名体育报社演艺部记者在采访现场孤军奋战的成长故事。电影中朴宝英饰演的新人实习记者「杜丽熙」在报道娱乐事件的过程中卷入新闻的漩涡而逐渐锻炼成长。郑在泳饰演的是朴宝英的上级「河在观」，是娱乐部的「定时炮弹」不知道何时就会「爆炸」，两人会有怎样的合作火花也令影迷非常期待。　　杜丽熙（朴宝英饰）是社会新鲜人的代表，为了在战场一样的职场中生存下来而绞尽脑汁费劲心理，然而却因为没有经验而屡屡闯祸。她梦想着成为成功职场女性，高喊着有热情就有一切的口号，然而现实却是手里的每件事都搞砸。杜丽熙作为见习记者开始了工作，本以为只要进了公司人生就会变得一帆风顺，但她却遇到了像“定时炸弹”一样的上司（郑在泳饰），第一天上班就被安排出去外采，什么都不懂的她只能跌跌撞撞地自己摸索，而意料之外的种种困难让她想到辞职。

警探本•卡森（Kiefer Sutherland 基弗•萨瑟兰 饰）因枪杀同事被迫从纽约警察局提前退休，他的婚姻也随之破裂。落魄的本暂住在妹妹安琪（Amy Smart 饰）的公寓里，终日借酒浇愁。一段时间沉沦过后，本重抖精神，找到了一份保安的工作。他所供职的五月花购物商场五年前曾被大火毁于一旦，令他倍感奇怪的是，在这座焦黑的建筑物中，那一面面镜子却格外明亮。　　数日后，本在商场的镜子上发现奇怪的手印，而次日亦在妹妹家的镜子上见到恐怖的景象。接下来的日子里，恐怖事件接连发生……