我好奇之黄

　　到2068年，地球上的臭氧消失了，因此，猛烈的、无法控制的风暴正在夷平它的表面。一小群军事幸存者是人类的最后的捍卫者,当队长约翰庭院是找到一份工作前战友拉皮埃尔,他现在是受雇于帝国,一个eco-profiteer,为了拯救他的父亲和其他几位幸存者中庭同意。他和一小群雇佣兵要闯入几乎不可渗透的文森特遗产和找回无价的“艺术”，储存在那里的启示之前。但是有一种致命的电脑控制的防御系统叫做“加密”，他们必须绕过它，还有一个杀手机器人叫做Rook &类似人类的全息安全主管Diana，她掌握着地球完全毁灭的钥匙——或者说是完全的拯救。

　　Upon arrival to Venus, cosmonauts find furious volcanoes and sundry prehistoric beasts in Klushantev's film, based on a novel by the Soviet sci-fi writer Aleksandr Kazantsev. Footage has been recycled in three Corman productions: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Queen of Blood, and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (the directorial debut of Peter Bogdanovich).　　83min

　　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.

　　2003年，福冈市的一所市立小学，发生了一起老师欺凌学生的恶性事件。一名男性教师以种族歧视为由，对“有美国人血统”的四年级学生处处找碴，施行恶毒的语言暴力和残酷的体罚。该学生的家长对教师提起民事诉讼，550名律师自发组成原告律师团。福冈市教育委员会也对教师做出了停职处罚。行为如此恶劣的教师堪称罕见，经《周刊文春》《朝日新闻》等主流媒体报导，引起轩然大波，涉案教师被冠上“史上最恶劣的‘杀人教师’”的名号；但欺凌事件真的发生了吗？随着调查的深入，事件发生了惊人的逆转……　　影片改编自记者福田真澄2007年出版的一本书，名为《捏造：福冈“杀人老师”的真相》。