性和改革

我的曼?。?025圣誕特別篇

擒兇記

　　本（詹姆斯·斯圖爾特 James Stewart 飾）和喬（桃麗絲·戴 Doris Day 飾）是一對(duì)感情十分要好的夫妻，帶著兒子漢克（Christopher Olsen 飾），一家三口來(lái)到了風(fēng)景如畫(huà)的摩洛哥度假。一次偶然中，本和喬結(jié)識(shí)了名叫路易斯（丹尼爾·蓋林 Daniel Gélin 飾）的男人，他們?cè)谝黄鹣嗵幨秩谇??！　〔恍业氖虑榘l(fā)生了，路易斯被兇手刺殺身亡，臨死前，他透露了一個(gè)神秘的名字——“安伯斯·查培”，并且告訴本和喬，有人正在倫敦執(zhí)行一項(xiàng)秘密的暗殺行動(dòng)，在得知了這個(gè)驚天秘密后，本和喬來(lái)到了倫敦。暗殺者自知行動(dòng)泄露，為了取得最后的成功，他們不擇手段綁架了漢克，可即便如此，也沒(méi)能動(dòng)搖本和喬聲張正義的決心。

不死真相

After an eccentric billionaire creates a drug called INOC which stops the aging process effectively eliminating death itself, the future of a world where death no longer exists is seen. Through a seemingly harmless children's toy, the story of the fate of mankind is told while also revealing an elusive truth to its unknowing spectator.

等待方舟

　　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.