西厢艳谈

　　The pic is set in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event that forces people into extreme isolation. A father (Moyer) and son (Van Acker), who have been living off grid for 20 years, encounter an outsider (Silverstone) who threatens to destroy the utopia they’ve built.

　　退休的副警察局长乌达亚巴努（Udhayabhanu）在电视节目中讲述了他职业生涯中的一些事件。这就是他如何揭示其职业生涯中具有里程碑意义的 “切帕南托塔案 ”中耐人寻味的细节。当严厉的巡回督察贾亚山卡尔（Jayashankar）和巡警卡尔蒂克（Karthik）开始一起工作时，一连串的事件就开始了。他们经常因为处理情况和解决问题的方法不同而发生冲突。在家人、朋友、敌人和上司的注视下，他们以各自独特的风格，试图解开纠缠不清的困境。谁能迎接挑战，又能以多快的速度完成任务？

　　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.

　凯拉（劳拉·乔丹 Laura Jordan 饰）、梅丽莎（尼姬·埃克斯 Nicki Aycox 饰）、鲍比（尼克·扎诺 Nick Zano 饰）和尼克（凯尔·施密德 Kyle Schmid 饰）等四个年轻人正驱车前往拉斯维加斯，准备参加那里举行的聚会。他们的车载半路抛锚，四人寻求帮助时在荒野找到一座空无一人的房子，继而在仓库里找到一辆跑车。经过一番讨论，他们决定留下联系方式，暂时把车开走，并负责赔偿车主的损失。                                                                    　　然而他们的想法过于天真，这辆汽车的主人正是恐怖的锈钉（马克·吉本 Mark Gibbon 饰），凯拉等人破门而入和偷走汽车的行为彻底惹恼了他，锈钉的疯狂狩猎也随即展开。凯拉等人命悬一线…

　　阿姆布罗瑟（文森特·卡索 Vincent Cassel 饰）是一名非常虔诚的修道士，早就发誓将自己的身体和心里全权交由上帝管理。苛刻而又严格的他对教义有着自己独特的理解，他觉得世人每一日都在玷污上帝的存在。玛蒂娜非常的崇拜阿姆布罗瑟，她的顺从和服从激发了阿姆布罗瑟潜藏在心底的兽欲，欲望一旦被激发，就无法收拾，阿姆布罗瑟一步一步向着深渊走去。　　安东尼娅（约瑟芬·约比 Joséphine Japy 饰）是常常前往修道院为自己的母亲祷告的女孩，她的纯洁吸引了阿姆布罗斯的注意，后者为了能够占有她的身体，不惜设计将她的母亲杀死。最终，阿姆布罗瑟的种种罪行被一个贵族青年给发现了。

小洲总是背着父亲薛大队长在学校调皮捣蛋，这次跟死党小马与胖雄又闯祸了，训导主任牛头于是一状告到薛大队长那里。父亲将小洲痛责，更在他书包里搜出小马的香烟，为此又将小洲严惩。小洲含冤受屈后愤而出走，心中更暗盼父亲可以从这个家消失；没想到当晚从对岸发射的两颗导弹竟令小洲如愿，薛大队长必须离家往前线去。父亲不在家，小洲与小马、胖雄的行动更肆无忌惮，却因此而惹上学校的小霸王大毛。小洲为对抗大毛，求助于国宅帮的少年头头A 司；A 司答应帮忙，却要三人付保护费。 　　三人夹在大毛与 A 司之间，饱受两方威胁。这时台湾面临战争边缘，股票大跌，总统直选在即，民间吹起移民潮。1996 年的南方时光，纷扰躁动，回想起来令人惘然。