我好奇之黄

　　影片《灵异医院》讲述的是一个有着不堪过去的女人在一家新近倒闭关门的医院找到了一份核对病人简历复印件的工作，而孤独一人在隔绝的医院值夜班的过程中她经历了一些神秘事件。有所警觉的她通过这些事件发现医院可能和近日出现的谋杀案有关，而要破解这些谜团，首先她需要仔细梳理一下自己混乱的过去。

 以成为神奇宝贝大师为目标，小智（松本梨香 配音）、小刚（うえだゆうじ 配音）和小光（豊口めぐみ 配音）带着各自的神奇宝贝在世界各地进行艰苦的修业之旅，今天他们历经长途跋涉终于来到了风景秀美的米琪亚镇。在当地一对小兄妹的介绍下，小智一行前往神殿遗址游玩。谁知却遭遇了极其危险的情况。关键时刻，掌管时间的迪亚鲁加和守卫神殿的西娜（北乃きい 配音）、凯宾（岸祐二 配音）帮助了他们，能与神奇宝贝心灵沟通的西娜还熄灭了冥王龙的怒火。从西娜口中得知，创造了世界的神奇宝贝即将苏醒，它不仅会使时空扭曲错乱，还将为世界带来毁灭性的灾难…… 本片为神奇宝贝系列第十二部电影剧场版。

　　Can I Get a Witness? tells the story of a mother and daughter in a near-future world where huge sacrifices are made to maintain life on Earth.　　With its resources swallowed by e-waste and overpopulation, the world is experiencing an anthropogenic collapse. To manage, technological advances are shunned. Nobody has electricity and only people with exceptions are permitted cars. Most importantly, there is also a collective agreement that nobody is allowed to live beyond the age of 50.　　Oh’s Ellie lives with her teenage daughter Kiah (Keira Jang), who is starting her first day as a Documenter, an important role in this new world order. She uses her artistic gifts — beautifully conjured in animations — to draw the dying ceremonies, since printing and photography have been banned.　　Kiah is paired with Daniel (Joel Oulette), the young man who performs the contractual elements of each person’s end-of-life ceremony. He matter-of-factly provides the packages a person can choose, sets them up when the time comes, and performs the burials. But his new coworker is having a hard time handling the emotional impacts of the job.

　　改编自芙蕾达·麦克法登的同名畅销小说。　　为生计挣扎的女子米莉（西德尼·斯维尼 Sydney Sweeney 饰）找到了一个新的开始，在一对看似完美且富有的夫妻妮娜（阿曼达·塞弗里德 Amanda Seyfried 饰）和安德鲁（布兰登·斯克莱纳 Brandon Sklenar 饰）的家中做家政。然而，米莉很快发现一家人的秘密比自己的要危险得多，这座豪宅背后上演着充满秘辛、丑闻、权力诱惑的游戏。

　　八个感化院的青年在两名警官的监督下，前往乡间一所破败的客栈中接受社区服务，但是他们的到来却无意中惊醒一个沉寂已久的恶魔。雅克布•古德奈特 饰（Glen Jacobs 格兰“凯恩”雅克布 饰），身高七英尺，体重四百磅，头骨里嵌着一个生锈的铁盘，锋利的指甲足够戳穿对手眼睛的精神病患者。　　雅克布四年前曾被警官弗兰克•威廉姆斯（Steven Vidler 饰）枪击头部，却侥幸逃生。如今弗兰克正是这群青年的督导员。弗兰克和孩子们的出现激起了雅克布屠杀的欲望，他举起巨斧，将客栈变作血腥的屠宰场……

　　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.