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　　在父亲的生日宴会上，一面镜子的突然碎裂让吉娜（琳娜·海蒂 Lena Headey 饰）和众人感到了深深的不安。第二天，吉娜来到工作的医院，却被告知就在不久之前自己刚刚离开了医院。对于这一异象，吉娜只以为是同事眼花，但之后发生的事情却让她再也无法保持平静——无论是大街上正在行驶的红色越野车，还是车中所坐的女子，皆和吉娜完全相同。　　无法控制自己好奇心的吉娜尾随女子来到了一幢公寓，过后，吉娜遭遇了惨烈的车祸。为了疗伤，吉娜开始和男友斯蒂芬（梅尔维尔·珀波 Melvil Poupaud 饰）同居，她将她的所见所闻告知了男友，后者却认为她不过是脑部受到了创伤，吉娜陷入了无尽的恐惧和怀疑之中。

　　快乐的暑假开始了，启人（津村真琴 配音）为了扫墓来到了风光秀丽的冲绳，在海边，他和阿海（佐伯鹏 配音）一起救下了一位名为美波（三石琴乃 配音）的少女，后者遭到了数码兽的攻击，这些数码兽的目标，似乎是美波所携带的一台笔记本电脑，在电脑里究竟隐藏了怎样的秘密？让启人感到意外的是，美波的遇险催生了数码宝贝石狮兽（津久井教生 配音）的诞生，它的使命为何？　　启人发现，在风靡全球的电子宠物V-Pet背后，隐藏着一个惊人的秘密，贪婪邪恶的曼法斯兽企图通过虚拟的数码兽摧毁人类世界，实现它建立数码世界的野心。面对强大的对手，启人和朋友们该何去何从？

　　获得第24届圣丹斯电影节剧情片类评委会大奖的《雷管》，讲述的是四位合作者出于兴趣发明了一台查错仪器，却意外地发现这台仪器拥有强大的商业价值，最终四人相互争斗的局面。《雷管》是导演什恩-卡鲁斯(ShaneCaruth)首次执导的剧情长片，该片由他自己投资，并身兼编剧、导演、主演数职，体现出独立电影的“DIY”精神。另外，令人津津乐道的是该片不足7000美元的超低制作成本，只相当于一辆富康车的价钱……

 Dorothy, now an elderly woman haunted by her past, tries to warn her granddaughter Emily before dark forces pull her into Oz, a once familiar land now twisted by horrors.

　　卡洛比安奇和多里亚诺是两个生活拮据的五十多岁男人，他们秉持着“绝不错过最后一杯酒”的人生哲学。在一次偶然的机会中，他们结识了朱利奥，一位性格内向、对人生感到迷茫的建筑学学生。这场看似不经意的邂逅，却逐渐演变成了一场穿越威尼斯平原的混乱公路旅行。　　在旅途中，糟糕的建议、宿醉的困扰以及意料之外的友情，不断挑战朱利奥对人生和爱情的原有计划。这场旅程不仅重新定义了他们彼此的生活，也让朱利奥开始重新思考自己的未来方向。

　　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.