悲情麗塔

等待方舟

　　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.

教皇行動

金發(fā)

本作の主人公は、大人になりきれない30歳の公立中學(xué)校教師?市川。彼が擔(dān)任を受け持つクラスの生徒數(shù)十人が校則への抗議として髪を金色に染めて登校し、學(xué)校中が大騒ぎになるさまが描かれる。

最佳女婿

　　美發(fā)師紀(jì)阿開（張學(xué)友）、服裝設(shè)計(jì)師大眼龍（莫少聰）和風(fēng)水師賴布丁（周星馳）三個(gè)死黨合伙開了一家新潮美發(fā)店，不料開業(yè)當(dāng)天就與隔壁理發(fā)店老板發(fā)生爭執(zhí)，幸得店老板女兒亞英（張敏）及時(shí)出手風(fēng)波平息，過程中，三人皆被亞英魅力吸引，為贏其芳心，開始頻頻登其家門獻(xiàn)殷勤。　　某次晚餐聚會后，三人爛醉與亞英誤睡一室，導(dǎo)致亞英懷孕，為與亞英一起生活，三人爭先恐后將準(zhǔn)父親一職往自己身上攬，又因三人血型相同，醫(yī)院也無法驗(yàn)出誰在冒名，亞英父母決定先考察三人表現(xiàn)，為爭當(dāng)最佳女婿，三人使盡渾身解數(shù)展開激烈角逐。