女同性恋者的悲哀

　　故事发生在1990年，美国一名汽车修理工约翰·格雷（大卫·丹席克 David Dencik 饰）因涉嫌猥亵自己的女儿安吉拉（艾玛·沃森 Emma Watson 饰）而遭到逮捕。负责调查此案的警官布鲁斯·肯纳（伊桑·霍克 Ethan Hawke 饰）对约翰展开问询，而在这一过程中约翰起先承认罪行，随后又突然失忆。为了应对这一突发状况，心理学教授肯尼斯·睿恩斯博士（大卫·休里斯 David Thewlis 饰）也介入调查之中。他们发现，约翰信奉崇拜魔鬼撒旦的黑宗教，甚至布鲁斯的搭档都有可能参与其中。布鲁斯和肯尼斯想方设法要打开嫌疑人和受害者的记忆闸门，让他们想起最不堪回首的一段往事……　　本片根据真实事件改编。

　　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.

　　一位貌似耶稣的小偷（Horácio Salinas 饰）从儿童们的石块击打中醒来，与一个无手无脚的侏儒结伴进入城市。城中正进行一场疯狂的庆典，一些人被杀死，鸟雀从他们的枪口中飞出，大量蟾蜍穿着印第安人以及欧洲殖民者的服装在混战中被炸的粉碎。小偷从几个罗马士兵打扮的人手中接过十字架，又被他们将自身的形象制造成无数模型……小偷在众目睽睽下爬上了一座能生产黄金的高塔，塔内的术士从小偷的粪便中提炼出了金子。术士用占星术确认了几位门徒，他们是生产面具的商人、武器商、艺术家、玩具商、政府顾问、军队长官和建筑师，七人分别代表不同的行星。术士把这些掌控国家的人物积聚一起，抛弃一切之后向传说中的圣山进发寻找不朽的秘密。

　　幸福的三口之家，可爱的小女孩亚美却经常对着空气说话，并言称有一个无依无靠的小弟弟跟在身边。她的举止令父母非常担心，而诡异的事件也相继发生。亚美的妈妈小萍是一所高中的老师，她的学生阿波与关儿相恋。青春男女爱火正炽，无所顾忌，终于令关儿不慎怀孕。为了免去负担与压力，关儿最终找到无照女医引产，这也正是他们痛苦的开始。另有一美貌女明星，适值人气下滑，而她又因不负责任的男友不断怀孕，人生渐渐陷入困境。　　在这些所谓时尚男女的附近，寂寞冷清的寺院内痛苦悲伤的婴灵无助哀号。各人欠债各人还，以杀生换取的幸福终究带着浓浓的血腥……