空虚时光

　　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.

27岁的由嘉里沉迷于拟人化烧肉漫画《肉即吾命》，却始终无法接纳真实的自己。面对朋友们纷纷步入婚姻与家庭，她感到焦虑与孤独，尝试通过相亲改变现状，却屡遭不顺，醉倒在歌舞伎町街头。此时，她被陪酒女莱伊救起，两人由此展开一段微妙的关系。随后，由嘉里又结识了已婚男公关朝日，三人各自背负着不同的生活压力，却在彼此陪伴中逐渐找到归属与勇气。                                                                      　　影片改编自金原瞳撰写的同名小说。

 画面开始，一双丰满的手灵巧地揉面、按记儿、擀皮儿、包包子。没过一会儿，一笼白白净净又馋人的包子就做得了。相貌平平的女主人推开厨房的窗户，短暂的歇息。稍后，包子蒸熟，女主人端着它来到餐桌前。此时，她的老公已经起床，正目不转睛地盯着电视的新闻。而他看了表后狼吞虎咽，便匆匆上班去了。失落的女主人拿起最后一个包子，可刚一张嘴包子便大哭了起来。不知为何包子有了生命，而倍感孤独的女主人格外开心，于是将包宝宝当做自己的孩子抚养。小包子一天天长大，他起初和女主人分外亲近，但是他渐渐有了自己的个性，渴望独立，渴望远行……本片是《超人总动员2》的贴片短片，荣获奥斯卡电影金像奖最佳动画短片奖。

上世纪九十年代，特大伪钞案暗流涌动，社会动荡不安。退役散打王郑明为救治白血病女儿，意外踏入凶险的伪钞产业链，在生死边缘挣扎求生。刑警谢家同誓破伪钞源头，二人从针锋相对到暗中周旋，上演猫鼠博弈。郑明在暴利与良知间反复拉扯，暗中向警方传递线索，试图戴罪立功。当他决心交出核心伪钞母版、彻底脱身时，女儿却被绑架要挟。绝境之下，他与谢家同放下隔阂，联手出击，在宗族宗祠与民俗游行中展开终极血战，捣毁庞大伪钞帝国，以热血捍卫正义与亲情。