流人

　　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.

　　卡洛比安奇和多里亞諾是兩個生活拮據(jù)的五十多歲男人，他們秉持著“絕不錯過最后一杯酒”的人生哲學(xué)。在一次偶然的機會中，他們結(jié)識了朱利奧，一位性格內(nèi)向、對人生感到迷茫的建筑學(xué)學(xué)生。這場看似不經(jīng)意的邂逅，卻逐漸演變成了一場穿越威尼斯平原的混亂公路旅行?！　≡诼猛局?，糟糕的建議、宿醉的困擾以及意料之外的友情，不斷挑戰(zhàn)朱利奧對人生和愛情的原有計劃。這場旅程不僅重新定義了他們彼此的生活，也讓朱利奧開始重新思考自己的未來方向。

　　規(guī)模龐大幾乎盤踞全球的跨國銀行IBBC在這個錢權(quán)主宰的社會里簡直無所不能，它不僅操控著各國經(jīng)濟，牽制著政府的決策，甚至參與洗錢、販賣軍火、勒索綁架等各種黑道行動，它就像一只大章魚將觸角伸向黑夜的每個角落。國際刑警路易斯·塞林格（克里夫·歐文 Clive Owen 飾）目睹同事因企圖泄露銀行機密而遭遇暗殺，他決意受命前往柏林徹查IBBC洗錢內(nèi)幕，得益于另一位正義者副檢察官埃莉諾·惠特曼（娜奧米·沃茨 Naomi Watts 飾）的同行協(xié)助，兩人很快發(fā)現(xiàn)了跨國銀行更多鮮為人知的非法活動，甚至包括資助恐怖分子和發(fā)動戰(zhàn)爭。兩人決心揭露跨國銀行的真實面目，然而，無所不知的IBBC早已注意到這兩只螻蟻，殺手隨即派到，路易斯和埃莉諾最終能否贏得這場螳臂當車的生死周璇？

　　校園里的一場大冒險演變成了都市傳說。當青少年們召喚“藍寶寶”時，某種東西回應(yīng)了他們。這場游戲蔓延開來，留下的是悲傷和私語。阻止它意味著要面對第一次召喚，以及被召喚的代價。