瑜伽学院：死亡的昆达里尼

　　《堵车》是一部集爱情、动作、奇幻、悬疑和黑色幽默于一体的都市电影，由一起堵车事件道出了贩毒者罗生门（吴镇宇 饰）、发条（陈志朋 饰）、一休（吴俊余 饰）、橙子（巴哈古丽 饰）等一群“堵心”人之间的命运交织，讲述了一个悬念迭起、凄美苍凉的故事。《堵车》——由堵心而生。　　三年前，“富二代”发条、先天心脏病患者一休和制毒贩毒者罗生门三个人同时都爱上了少女橙子。　　三年后，又为了同一个目标，所有人的命运再次交织在一起。　　“∩”型摩天大楼就是罗生门的终点，是天堂的大门，也是宿命的象征。在荆轲的枪口下，罗生门用绿藻酒结束了自己的生命。手机视频中，发条生命垂危，说：如果我死了，请把我的心脏移植给一休。完成了橙子的愿望，也表达他对橙子的爱。

　　尼古拉斯·凯奇出演独立制作惊悚片《窥镜》(Looking Glass，暂译)。导演为曾拍摄多部MV及广告的多里·奥斯科维兹，编剧杰里·莱普、马修·怀尔德。一对夫妇在经历生活伤痛后买下了荒郊僻壤一处汽车旅馆，他们此举是为了探秘旅馆一个房间内发生的一系列无法解释的怪事。影片今秋开机。

　　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.