不倫中毒

　　2003年，福岡市的一所市立小學(xué)，發(fā)生了一起老師欺凌學(xué)生的惡性事件。一名男性教師以種族歧視為由，對“有美國人血統(tǒng)”的四年級學(xué)生處處找碴，施行惡毒的語言暴力和殘酷的體罰。該學(xué)生的家長對教師提起民事訴訟，550名律師自發(fā)組成原告律師團(tuán)。福岡市教育委員會也對教師做出了停職處罰。行為如此惡劣的教師堪稱罕見，經(jīng)《周刊文春》《朝日新聞》等主流媒體報(bào)導(dǎo)，引起軒然大波，涉案教師被冠上“史上最惡劣的‘殺人教師’”的名號；但欺凌事件真的發(fā)生了嗎？隨著調(diào)查的深入，事件發(fā)生了驚人的逆轉(zhuǎn)……　　影片改編自記者福田真澄2007年出版的一本書，名為《捏造：福岡“殺人老師”的真相》。

　　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.

　　香德祖（成奎安 飾）是一名香港皇家警察，他的老婆（王小鳳 飾）懷孕待產(chǎn)，夫妻二人親密非常。這一日，他們?nèi)メt(yī)院檢查的路上，遭遇一伙銀行劫匪。出于職責(zé)，香拋下妻子奮勇上前追擊。經(jīng)過一番追車和搏斗，香制服歹徒，卻被匪首暗算，致使鋼筋穿胸而死，尸體被埋于亂鐵之中。是夜，一只黑貓?zhí)舷愕纳眢w，剛好猛雷劈下，香竟奇跡般復(fù)蘇，變成活脫脫的僵尸。他復(fù)活后力大無比，但害怕陽光，還需要定期充電。香自知時日無多，決定對妻子隱瞞這個秘密，并將銀行劫匪繩之以法。　　另一方面，匪徒當(dāng)初逃跑時劫持少女Gucci（葉蘊(yùn)儀 飾）為人質(zhì)，混亂中Gucci拿著裝錢的箱子逃跑。憤怒的劫匪四下尋找Gucci，當(dāng)他們得知香還在人間之時，一番正邪大戰(zhàn)在所難免……

 露絲·威爾森、庫什·珍寶、裴淳華正商談主演改編自大熱音樂劇《The Band》的新片[最偉大的時光](Greatest Days，暫譯)。影片由科奇·吉爾佐(《名姝》)執(zhí)導(dǎo)，片名靈感源自英國流行組合接招合唱團(tuán)(Take That)的同名歌曲。故事圍繞著五名女學(xué)生展開，她們在自己最喜歡的男孩樂隊(duì)的演唱會上，度過了一生中最難忘的夜晚。25年后，她們的生活以及生活方式發(fā)生了翻天覆地的變化，她們相聚在一起回望過去并探索未來。接招合唱團(tuán)成員包括加里·巴洛、霍華德·唐納德、杰森·奧蘭奇、馬克·歐文和羅比·威廉姆斯。環(huán)球音樂集團(tuán)將全力助陣該項(xiàng)目，接招合唱團(tuán)的大量歌曲將獲得使用，包括《Patience》《Back For Good》《A Million Love Songs》《Relight My Fire》《Could It Be Magic》等金曲將全部在影片中呈現(xiàn)。