輕蔑

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.

兇間疑影

　　風韻猶存的妮妲是一個單身媽媽，數(shù)年前她和老公的感情破裂，長久以來只同兒子阿頓生活在一起。妮妲靠在夜市賣電影光盤為生，巨大的壓力令她皈依一個名為“Who R U”的宗教社團。5年前，阿頓與母親發(fā)生爭執(zhí)，隨即將自己反鎖房中，從此再未踏向外部世界。妮妲與阿頓德交流便是通過門縫下傳遞紙條來實現(xiàn)，憑借宗教賜予她的力量，妮妲似乎漸漸習慣這種不正常的生活。　　某電視臺恐怖節(jié)目編輯阿東是妮妲的?？停弥㈩D的事情，告知妮妲這是一種被稱為“隱蔽青年”的自閉癥狀。阿東決定幫助阿頓走出房門，回到社會。他極其熱心地操辦此事，結果卻令他追悔莫及。而在這一過程中，妮妲內(nèi)心塵封已久的記憶也被漸漸喚醒……

吞天巨鯊

　　太平洋某座生物研究所內(nèi)，最新研究的魚類加速繁殖計劃得到了突破，并在繁殖力極低的鯊魚身上試驗成功。實驗室的科學家們大喜過望，稱這項研究將徹底解決全球食物問題。只有總負責人博士袁聰認為此舉會破壞現(xiàn)有的生態(tài)環(huán)境，力排眾議下令銷毀實驗鯊魚。然而實驗組的副手莫雷將這些鯊魚看成畢生心血，偷走幾條幼鯊準備轉移，誰知在路上被咬傷出了事故，幼鯊逃進下水道進入了大海。沒過多久，若干處海邊出現(xiàn)鯊魚群體襲擊事件，原來這些鯊魚的背后有一只超級巨大的母鯊......

巨人來襲

看不見的女兒

　　A man, who years earlier mysteriously abandoned his family and isolated himself in a small northern town, returns for one last chance to reconnect with his troubled daughter. When she goes missing, he risks everything to find her, including exposing the fact that he is becoming invisible.