聊斋志异之孽欲孤鬼

　　兰斯林（丹尼斯·奎德 Dennis Quaid 饰）警官同时也是一个单身父亲，因公务繁忙，他无暇照顾两个儿子，大儿子亚历克斯无形中时常扮演父亲的角色。最近兰斯林被一桩连续杀人案缠住，每个凶案现场都发现了至少四名嫌疑人的踪迹，并且统一留下了“过来看”的血色留言，死者死于悬挂的状态充满了宗教意味，兰斯林从人体悬挂的铁架入手，发现这一干罪犯以杀人作为宗教仪式，并且以启示录中记载的“天启四骑士”自居。第一个受害者的华裔养女克里斯汀（章子怡 饰）主动找到兰斯林，坦承了自己与连续杀人案的关系，但是这不能阻止更多人受害，兰斯林惊见自己最不愿意看到的事情发生了……

　　Star QB Drayton and dancer Dallas face relationship challenges amid his recovery from a setback and her doubts about her future. Their bond strains as they deal with distance and personal changes.

　　一位是作风矫健、机智幽默的联邦特工威斯特（威尔·史密斯 Will Smith 饰），一位是爱耍聪明的易容大师高登（凯文·克莱恩 Kevin Kline 饰），这两个看似一山不容二虎的狠角色却被总统同时召见了，原因是授命他们一同追捕一名神秘毒辣的科学家连环杀手。威斯特和高登只好在摩擦碰撞中培养默契，竟然很快成为一对绝配拍档。经过调查，两人发现原来幕后黑手竟然是曾经的天才博士勒弗里斯（肯尼思·布拉纳 Kenneth Branagh 饰），他因在一次实验中失去双腿，只好永久呆在轮椅上，然而残缺的个性与对社会的怨恨让他开始到处作乱，甚至发明了一架巨型的蜘蛛机器滥杀无辜，并企图谋杀总统，统治美国。危机迫在眉睫，威斯特和高登分头来到新奥尔良，驾驶着一列布满机关的火车迎战蜘蛛博士，一场古怪武器间的斗智斗勇已悄然展开……

　　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.

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