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　　西班牙驚悚片。根據(jù)西班牙懸疑推理小說家多洛蕾絲·雷東多的代表作巴斯坦三部曲之《隱形守護(hù)者》，這是近年來西班牙最轟動的犯罪懸疑小說，比《沉默的羔羊》《犯罪心理》更驚悚，已經(jīng)高踞西班牙暢銷書排行榜長達(dá)三年之久，講述巴斯克地區(qū)的一起連環(huán)殺人案。一名曾受過聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局訓(xùn)練的警察回到位于納瓦拉的家鄉(xiāng)，追捕一名專以當(dāng)?shù)厍嗌倌隇槟繕?biāo)的殺手，還得面對自己過去的心理創(chuàng)

　　A small town is haunted by the twin daughters of a wrongfully convicted man. Young Jordan is sent down the path to who the real killer is only to find the killer is very close to her.

　　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.

　　羅馬帝國統(tǒng)治下的埃及，一個家庭為躲避追殺而隱秘生活。家中年輕的兒子（被稱為“男孩”）開始對自己的監(jiān)護(hù)人（被稱為“木匠”）的身份和教誨產(chǎn)生深深的懷疑?！　∧泻Ⅲw內(nèi)沉睡著某種神秘而強大的超自然力量。隨著他的成長與反叛，這股力量開始覺醒并失控。每當(dāng)他動用一次能力，就會打破現(xiàn)實的脆弱平衡，招致更可怕的反噬——他們不僅要面對羅馬士兵的世俗威脅，更要遭遇因褻瀆神明而引發(fā)的、超越自然規(guī)律的恐怖現(xiàn)象：尼羅河水逆流、沙暴中浮現(xiàn)古老邪靈、瘟疫以超自然的方式蔓延……　　這個家庭被迫在雙重恐懼的夾縫中求生：一邊是外部世界的追捕，另一邊是來自男孩自身力量的、逐漸失控的神性（或魔性）災(zāi)難。