浪荡公子和我的朋友聚会（2019）-Swingers Party With My Friend (2019)

　　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.

　　某年圣诞节期间，位于一个僻静舒适角落的格兰达尔森林旅馆正式开业。美丽的女店主阿哈娜（碧帕莎·芭素 Bipasha Basu 饰）为了这一天可谓煞费苦心，她以一己之力安排旅馆内的一切事务，与此同时第一批客人也接二连三入住。虽然状况不断，不过旅馆的开业仪式总算顺利进行了下来，而且她还因误会结识了拥有迷人气质的客人库纳尔·阿南德（Imran Abbas 饰）。然而在前一晚，给旅店送货的司机遭到不明生物的袭击，死状可怖。次日，一对新婚燕尔的夫妻也在丛林中遇袭。　　恐怖的死亡气氛迅速蔓延，阿哈娜好不容易建立起来的梦想旅馆，面临怪物的无情毁灭……

　　《幸存者》讲述了十亿年前，外星异种来地球，进行各种生物培育，因为地壳运动剧烈，被火山岩浆淹埋。荒凉的北极科学探测站内，正欢呼石油的到来，钻台无故断电、矿井喷出神秘的胶体、员工被大卸八块……顿时失去控制，当站长亚当、凯特等反应过来，并组织起武装防卫时，95%的人们成了无辜冤魂，血肉模糊、脑髓迸射；不可抗力的人类浩劫就此爆发，从北极向全球疯狂蔓延……

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