哭泣的女人

 戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)結(jié)束了，但留下的悲劇從來(lái)都不會(huì)就此斷絕。在位于美國(guó)加州的一家傷兵醫(yī)院里，盧克（強(qiáng)·沃特 Jon Voight 飾）痛苦的躺在病床上。戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)徹底的奪走了他剩余人生里的幸福和自由，半身不遂的他注定再也享受不到生為一個(gè)正常人的快樂(lè)了。因?yàn)榉N種，盧克每天都生活在抑郁和憤怒之中。莎莉（簡(jiǎn)·方達(dá) Jane Fonda 飾）的丈夫鮑勃（布魯斯·鄧恩 Bruce Dern 飾）是一名軍官。身為軍官之妻，莎莉有義務(wù)對(duì)在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中遭難的軍人們進(jìn)行安撫。就這樣，莎莉邂逅了盧克，并且在時(shí)間的推移之中深深的愛(ài)上了他。為了給予盧克繼續(xù)活下去的希望，她不惜用自己的身體去引誘盧克。

　　2071。銀河戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)摧毀了月球，改變了地球的氣候。莫斯科是熱帶森林，紐約是一片冰。在莫斯科上空升起一艘巨大的外星飛船-這是一個(gè)體育場(chǎng)，在那里進(jìn)行了星際太空游戲的表演，聯(lián)合體育和角斗士的戰(zhàn)斗。整個(gè)銀河系都在看比賽。只有運(yùn)動(dòng)員才能玩太空。這就是人們所說(shuō)的那些具有非凡能力并能夠管理這些能力的人。宇宙崇拜的一切，除了安東，最普通的人，誰(shuí)只是夢(mèng)想找到一份工作來(lái)幫助家庭。但有一天，他發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的超能力，并接受加入國(guó)家隊(duì)。現(xiàn)在他是一個(gè)宇宙飛船的球員。安東還不知道這場(chǎng)比賽的命運(yùn)決定了他的角色，最后的比賽將是一場(chǎng)為土地而戰(zhàn)。

唐載初年，位于郊外校場(chǎng)倒塌的通天浮屠殘骸一夜之間復(fù)活。天空中一條火龍照亮夜空，并噴射火球摧毀了整個(gè)校場(chǎng)，死傷無(wú)數(shù)。隨后通天浮屠也燃起大火，化為灰燼。而異族鬼道在城外叫囂，只有武則天效仿大佛自焚，天下才可免受災(zāi)難。城中內(nèi)外人心惶惶，狄仁杰奉命徹查此案，卻遇到了與自己有過(guò)節(jié)的大理寺少卿裴東升。二人不打不相識(shí)，被迫一起調(diào)查此案。面對(duì)外敵的入侵，隊(duì)友的不信任，狄仁杰決心背水一戰(zhàn)，勢(shì)要查明案件的真相。

　　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.