姐夫的满足

 故事开始于十六世纪初，因为皇后凯瑟琳（宾妮·巴尼斯 Binnie Barnes 饰）无法生育，英国国王亨利八世（查尔斯·劳顿 Charles Laughton 饰）同她离婚，另娶了名为恩尼（梅尔·奥勃朗 Merle Oberon 饰）的女子为皇后，哪知道野心勃勃的恩尼整天盘算着推翻丈夫的统治自立为王，当她的阴谋败露之后，亨利八世亲手将她送上了断头台。恩尼死后，亨利八世娶了奇恩（温迪·巴里 Wendy Barrie 饰）为妻，哪知道在生产时，奇恩因为难产而死，只留下了一个可怜的婴儿威尔斯（迈尔斯·曼德 Miles Mander 饰）。之后，大臣们想要国王迎娶德国公主，可这一次，国王驳回了大臣们的请求。

　　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.

　　迈可透过一张光碟，参加了一场刺激的游戏，在月黑风高的晚上他发现自已稍稍走进一间屋子并从厨房拿刀子杀死一个沈睡著的男人当迈可醒来时他兴奋极了，这一生他从没有这么刺激和开心过，第二天当他看到新闻。天啊！那件谋杀案真的发生了吗？后来第二张CD又寄来了，他决定结束这场荒谬的游戏，但主谋者从迈可的电脑中走出来，他竟是一具有形象的＂人＂，并且一再要胁迈可再玩下去，也挑唆他面对恐惧和幻象，迈可就像受催眠一般他无处可逃，主谋者已经完全控制了他使他分不清什么是真什么是假……

　　粗鲁蛮横的博贝克（金·科林斯 Kim Collins 饰）和女儿维多利亚（Amy Brassette 饰）参加钓鱼大赛，谁知到手的鱼儿却被一条白鲨吃掉。博贝克勃然大怒，竟然用炸药对付鲨鱼，结果父女引来了可怕的杀身之祸，连驾驶游艇的船长也无法幸免。次日，爱娃（Mackenzie Rosman 饰）、卡梅隆（Jaren Mitchell 饰）、米克（Shawn C. Phillips 饰）、布雷西（Dave Randolph-Mayhem Davis 饰）等几名年轻人来海边玩耍，可在欢乐之时一条全身散发荧光的鲨鱼向人们发起猛烈攻击。原来鲨鱼也有憎恶怨恨之心，昨晚的鲨鱼虽被博贝克炸死，但它的怨念使它化身为复仇的鬼鲨鱼，向所有人类展开报复。　　而这一切的背后，又藏着不可告人的秘密……