月光武士

　　一個(gè)誠(chéng)實(shí)的科學(xué)家把死去的百萬(wàn)富翁(多諾萬(wàn)飾)的大腦保存在水箱里。多諾萬(wàn)成功地把他強(qiáng)大的意志強(qiáng)加給這位科學(xué)家，并利用他來(lái)謀殺他的敵人。

　　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.

 1976年，8歲的瑪麗·黛西·丁格爾（貝絲妮·惠特摩爾 Bethany Whitmore 配音）是澳大利亞墨爾本的一個(gè)小女孩，喜歡動(dòng)畫片“諾布利特”、甜煉乳和巧克力。瑪麗的媽媽是個(gè)酒鬼，而在茶葉包裝廠工作的父親平日只喜歡制作鳥標(biāo)本。孤獨(dú)的瑪麗沒(méi)有朋友，某一天心血來(lái)潮給美國(guó)紐約市的馬克思·杰瑞·霍羅威茨（菲利普·塞默·霍夫曼 Philip Seymour Hoffman 配音）寫了一封信詢問(wèn)美國(guó)小孩從哪里來(lái)，并附上一根櫻桃巧克力棒。44歲的馬克思患有自閉癥及肥胖，碰巧也喜歡看“諾布利特”動(dòng)畫片及吃巧克力。二人的筆友關(guān)系從1976年維持到1994年，期間各自經(jīng)歷了許多人生起伏，直到成年的瑪麗（托妮·科萊特 Toni Collette 配音）終于來(lái)到紐約看望馬克思……本片獲2009年法國(guó)昂錫國(guó)際動(dòng)畫影展最佳動(dòng)畫長(zhǎng)片獎(jiǎng)，柏林國(guó)際電影節(jié)水晶熊獎(jiǎng)及渥太華國(guó)際動(dòng)畫電影節(jié)最高獎(jiǎng)。

 故事圍繞匈牙利出生的猶太建筑師拉斯洛·托斯與妻子埃爾茲貝特展開(kāi)。他們?cè)诙?zhàn)后逃離歐洲，前往美國(guó)重啟他們的事業(yè)，并見(jiàn)證了現(xiàn)代美國(guó)的誕生。然而他們的生活被一名神秘而富有的客戶改變了。