誤殺3 (2024)

　　當一聲lesson one響起，不知你的思緒是否也回到了有朗朗讀書聲的那間教室，回到有雷蕾、何玫玫、Jimmy、Lily、Lucy和鸚鵡Poly陪伴的青春記憶。然而，雷蕾和何玫玫最終卻沒有走到一起……多年后，這些同學們因鸚鵡Polly的葬禮齊聚學校操場，何玫玫帶著丈夫韓剛和兩個女兒到場，一個叫可可，一個叫惜惜，這對雷蕾猶如晴天霹靂！失意之極的李雷在無意中按動了裝有英語聽力磁帶的錄音機，他發現通過磁帶的快進倒帶鍵可以一次又一次的穿越。于是，他開始了一次又一次的追回何玫玫計劃……

講述了17歲的女孩塔尼婭的故事。她計劃在秋季入學前與朋友一起去歐洲度假。但是，她的媽媽決定去泰國參加一個健康療養活動，因此塔尼婭不得不留在家里照顧她的兄弟姐妹。正如標題所示，當他們年邁的保姆意外去世時，塔尼婭找到了一份為一位雄心勃勃的女性工作的工作。在她努力平衡工作、家庭和復雜的愛情關系時，塔尼婭在失去最后一個自由的夏天的代價中，開始體驗成人生活。

　　1976年，一名會計師因莫須有的罪名，將面臨不公正的刑事判罰，他決心一斗到底。西班牙導演阿爾韋托·羅德里格斯（《千面人》）闊別6年重回大銀幕的新作，根據真實事件創作，于現已關閉的巴塞羅那莫德羅監獄內實景拍攝，回溯1976年弗朗哥去世后的西班牙民主過渡期。影片巧用突然驚嚇營造驚悚氣氛，反映獄警對犯人的多種慘無人道的摧殘；藉由民憤輪番上演花式越獄，點燃普通人的求生之火，強烈抨擊國家法律體系的不公。榮獲2023年西班牙戈雅獎16項提名，最終攬獲最佳美術指導等5項技術大獎。

　　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.