野生藍

　　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.

　　暑期返回夏威夷的露西（約翰尼·斯奎婭飾）與父親亞當（特洛伊·科特蘇爾 飾）、妹妹艾琳及寵物黑猩猩本團聚。趁父親因工作離家，露西與好友凱特（Kate）、漢娜（杰西卡·亞歷山大 飾）及凱特的哥哥尼克策劃了一場泳池派對。派對期間，本被一只患有狂犬病的動物咬傷，溫順的黑猩猩逐漸變得兇殘。眾人被迫困在泳池內，且在無法求援的絕境中，必須協作智斗發狂的本以保全性命。

　　瑪麗安離開了她一直生活的城市，回到了成長的地方，并從祖母那里繼承了一棟老房子。最近的村莊有十公里遠，沒有電，也沒有熱水。有時，屈服于災難是重新開始的唯一方法。

影片改編自蒲松齡《聊齋志異》之《聶小倩》。小倩生前被人所負含恨而終，死后化為女鬼，被姥姥囚禁于蘭若寺。恰逢書生寧生進京趕考，借宿此地，意外救下小倩。逃亡途中，兩人不斷遭遇人間及地府勢力的阻撓，卻也在此般經歷中感情升溫。寧生帶著小倩感受了人間美好，小倩決心還陽，卻在到達鬼市后發現事情遠沒有這么簡單……