桃色星期五

　　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.

　　片中卡雅·斯考达里奥饰演伊曼纽尔，她迷上了长得酷像她死去母亲的新邻居(杰西卡·贝尔饰）。为了照顾她新生的孩子，伊曼纽尔陷入了一个虚幻易碎的世界，并成为了那里的守门人…

 失意的小说家兼教授塞隆尼斯·“蒙克”·埃里森（杰弗里·怀特 Jeffrey Wright 饰）出于怨恨，用开玩笑的方式写了一本小说，书中充斥着古怪刻板印象的黑人形象。不料这本书出版后大受好评，不仅获得文学大奖，还被拍成电影。

　　毕业于某高中的考特尼（Laura Ashley Samuels 饰）、瑞安（皮尔森·福德 Pierson Fode 饰）、南森（乔·阿德勒 Joe Adler 饰）等人聚在一起聊天，他们俊朗美丽，当初都是学校里备受人关注的明星人物。只不过站在顶端的风云儿常常促狭无度，他们随意捉弄其他同学，并以此为乐，当然彼此心中默默守护着一个不可轻易为外人道的秘密。某天，他们的同学吉米被一个带着玛丽莲·梦露面具的人抓住，随后以极其残酷的手段虐待致死。这件事令众人大为震惊，而他们随后也不约而同遭遇各种奇怪事件。　　一切似乎指向数年前发生在珊地海滩的一次“意外”，他们的一位同学溺水身亡，而刻意被隐藏的“意外”则成为他们今天深陷死亡漩涡的肇因。

人生低谷迫使两位女子偷盗数百万黄金——这是他们人生中最后一次生死攸关的冒险。                                                                      　　美善（Mi Seon）和道静（Do Gyeong）或许早已习惯在首尔江南区最危险的地段挣扎求生，但这并不意味着她们已经安于此地。除了彼此之外，两位好友只能拼命攒钱，想要摆脱危险的生活方式。然而，就在“退休”指日可待之际，世界却背叛了她们，粉碎了她们的希望。在绝路边缘，她们在江南区发现了一笔隐藏的财富，其中包括赃款和黄金——并将所有赌注押在了人生中最后一次豪赌上。

　　Allen Meneric is committed to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane because of a brutal revenge murder. There he is forced to deal with the very ill and the dangerous until, as part of a socialization program, he is transferred to minimum security where he meets Mia, a beautiful bipolar female inmate. Ever haunted by his past, Allen seeks his redemption when sudden events demand that he protect Mia from the violence and chaos of the institution.