火焰中的女人

　　一對(duì)黑人兄妹相依為命，哥哥卻被白人警察誤殺，你猜猜她會(huì)怎么辦？對(duì)抗強(qiáng)權(quán)為黑人群體發(fā)聲？并不，妹妹居然造了一架時(shí)光機(jī)器，回到過(guò)去好讓自己的哥哥免于槍殺！

出身穆斯林家庭的少女法蒂瑪，即將前往巴黎讀大學(xué)。站在人生岔路口，她面臨性向與信仰的纏斗。對(duì)女體難以啟齒的貪戀，化為交友軟件上無(wú)數(shù)個(gè)假名與忘我纏綿的幽會(huì)。隨著晨禱摻入雜念，法蒂瑪遇見(jiàn)命定的那個(gè)她，在親密關(guān)系里感受愛(ài)與傷，卻依舊迷茫。四季遞嬗間，那些捫心自問(wèn)的日與夜，會(huì)將法蒂瑪帶往何方？

 李維杰（肖央 飾）與妻子阿玉（譚卓 飾）來(lái)泰打拼17年，膝下育有兩個(gè)女兒，年屆四十的他靠開(kāi)設(shè)網(wǎng)絡(luò)公司為生，為人也頗得小鎮(zhèn)居民的好感，而這一切美好卻被突如其來(lái)的不速之客打破。這個(gè)充斥走私，販毒活動(dòng)的邊陲小鎮(zhèn)，各種權(quán)力交織碾壓公平正義。李維杰的大女兒平平（許文珊 飾）被督察長(zhǎng)拉韞（陳沖 飾）的兒子素察（邊天揚(yáng) 飾）迷奸，因反抗誤殺對(duì)方。李維杰曾親眼目睹督察長(zhǎng)濫用私刑，深知法律無(wú)用，為了維護(hù)女兒，捍衛(wèi)家人，李維杰埋尸掩蓋一切證據(jù)，在時(shí)間與空間的交錯(cuò)縫隙中，與警方在身心層面，展開(kāi)了殊死一搏的較量。

　　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.