巨女与大章鱼

　　宠爱女友的男主角，在好友帮忙下成功求婚。男主角当晚高兴入眠。至第二天醒来，发现自己在一个陌生房间，身边多了一个陌生女子，她告知是自己的老婆，惊讶之时才发现自己来到三年之后，离奇荒诞的事接踵而来，究竟为何会这样？这三年又发生了什么事？本身的女友又去了哪里呢？

　　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.

　　人間と人魚が共存する未来社会を舞台とする本作。船舶を製造する会社で働くサラリーマンのステファンは、ある日突然、人魚王国の姫・チャオに求婚される。ステファンはわけがわからないままチャオと一緒に生活する中で、純粋でまっすぐなチャオに少しずつ惹かれていく。

　　故事发生在1080年的西班牙，彼时的西班牙并没有统一，而是分为三个互不干涉彼此国家政务的小国。卢利歌（查尔登·海斯顿 Charlton Heston 饰）因为暗中放走了国王卡斯提尔下令处死的摩尔人酋长而遭到了国王的厌恶。在一场意外之中，卢利歌不小心杀死了未婚妻吉米娜（索 菲娅·罗兰 Sophia Loren 饰）的父亲，导致两人的情感破裂。　　不久之后，卢利歌所在的国家遭到了别国的侵略，卢利歌奋起反击保护自己祖国领土的完整，最终将敌人击退。然而坏事成双，卡斯提尔的去世让两名王子阿尔福斯（约翰·弗拉瑟 John Fraser 饰）和桑科（加里·雷蒙德 Gary Raymond 饰）开始争夺王位，好不容易恢复的和平再一次遭到破坏。