媽媽的乖孩子

　　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.

　　Robbins is sentenced to prison for the assassination of his general officer, a prison you leave only when you die. Since nobody ever leaves the prison, nobody knows what the prison is like. The prison manager realizes this and buys himself an island playground called "Absolom," where the worst prisoners are free to create an isolated barbaric society, and where the strongest men rule...a living hell. Robbins is sent to Absolom after he almost kills the prison manager.

　　故事發(fā)生在上世紀90年代的一個美國小鎮(zhèn)上。扎克和喬西從童年時就是最好的朋友，他們每天一起騎車上下學，放學后一起玩耍，甚至喜歡上同一個女孩。然而平靜的生活在某天下午被徹底打破了。聚會因大麻而失控，朋友達里爾在教室里失血過多身亡，男孩們恐慌無措地要彼此發(fā)誓保密，扎克簡單的生活仿佛被撕開了一道巨大的口子，整日被罪惡感壓迫地喘不過氣，喬西則索性不再上學，甚至不再走出家門一步。曾經(jīng)密不可分的兩個男孩在數(shù)日后便產(chǎn)生了不可逾越的鴻溝……

　　此片是《列寧格勒牛仔征美記》的續(xù)集，列寧格勒牛仔樂團收到了美國人的邀請去紐約演出，沒有簽證的他們在墨西哥海關(guān)闖關(guān)成功來到了美國，這是他們前任隊長米盧出現(xiàn)了，他號稱在沙漠里得到了上帝的拯救，已經(jīng)洗心革面成為了像摩西一樣的圣人，他許愿他們巡回演出后把他們帶回故鄉(xiāng)，因為家鄉(xiāng)誕生了一頭圣牛，為了慶祝，米盧決定盜走自由女神的鼻子作為獻給圣牛的禮物，得逞后他們帶著鼻子來到了法國、德國、捷克，一路上他們和CIA密探斗志斗勇，險象環(huán)生，而密探長時間和因為看了米盧送的圣經(jīng)為之感化，成為了他們的一員，于是，這支并不高明的樂隊為了這個神圣的夢想，一路賣唱，千辛萬苦，終于回到了西伯利亞的家鄉(xiāng)