最毒妇人心

伪叛国者

　　1942年，生活在斯德哥尔摩的瑞典籍美国石油商人埃里克•埃里克森突然发现自己上了美国的纳粹合作者黑名单，急于辨白。而这一切是盟军情报机关的安排，意在逼迫埃里克成为间谍，因为他可以方便地进出德国。无奈的埃里克只得就范，他开始公开表现亲近纳粹，甚至不惜伤害最亲密的犹太人朋友坎普尔。朋友和亲人们都疏远了他，但只有坎普尔暗中相信埃里克这样做必有难言的原因。　　很快，埃里克就和德国人拉上了关系，并将德国石油业巨头格哈德•奥伦道夫爵士、石油商人奥托•豪兹拉下水，组成一个间谍小组，他的代号为“莱德”。　　同时，埃里克与笃信宗教的德国地下抵抗组织成员玛丽亚娜取得联络，乔装成情人幽会，骗过监视的盖世太保，不断将她提供的情报记忆下来后带回瑞典。埃里克与玛丽亚娜为了事业均是家庭不幸，两个人倾心相恋。埃里克虽是谍海新兵，但他沉着坚毅，多次避过危险。　　在奥伦道夫的努力下，埃里克获准在瑞典为德国“建设”炼油厂，于是得到了参观德国石油工厂的机会，一次，埃里克与奥伦道夫目睹纳粹绞死罢工工人的场面，被深深触动，开始由被迫工作转向自觉行动。他们的情报使盟军得以准确轰炸，令德国损失惨重。　　一段时间后，奥托因病去世，由于密信可能泄露，盟军情报机关决定停止埃里克小组的活动。但埃里克惦念玛丽亚娜，同时也为了取回至关重要的纳粹航空燃料生产情报，他毅然再次前往德国。埃里克一到柏林就被关进盖世太保监狱，并亲眼看到因身份暴露被捕的玛丽亚娜殉难。但他强忍悲痛，咬定自己只是玛丽亚娜的情人，盖世太保没有证据只好放人。　　埃里克从格哈德处拿到情报，又前往汉堡销毁奥托的密信，不料被跟随的盖世太保察觉。埃里克机智逃脱，并与汉堡的盟国谍报网取得联系，在地下组织和丹麦百姓的帮助下，埃里克越过边境，经哥本哈根渡过海峡，安全返回瑞典。

鬼迷藏

凶间疑影

　　风韵犹存的妮妲是一个单身妈妈，数年前她和老公的感情破裂，长久以来只同儿子阿顿生活在一起。妮妲靠在夜市卖电影光盘为生，巨大的压力令她皈依一个名为“Who R U”的宗教社团。5年前，阿顿与母亲发生争执，随即将自己反锁房中，从此再未踏向外部世界。妮妲与阿顿德交流便是通过门缝下传递纸条来实现，凭借宗教赐予她的力量，妮妲似乎渐渐习惯这种不正常的生活。　　某电视台恐怖节目编辑阿东是妮妲的常客，他得知阿顿的事情，告知妮妲这是一种被称为“隐蔽青年”的自闭症状。阿东决定帮助阿顿走出房门，回到社会。他极其热心地操办此事，结果却令他追悔莫及。而在这一过程中，妮妲内心尘封已久的记忆也被渐渐唤醒……

电子云层下

　　雾雪笼罩的怪异河岸。四处散落着钢精和水泥。一栋废弃的摩天大楼。平坦处仍未完工的公路桥。一座宏大的金属制的马的雕像。还有一座列宁的雕塑，他的右手伸展着指向空旷处。这是一个冰冷、僵化的无人之境，衰落的往昔在这里与想象中的未来接壤。人们漫无目的地穿过这个不真实的世界。原先确定无疑的事情不再令人确信，亲戚朋友都消失了，理想已经随风而散。萨莎从国外返回家乡，她死去的父亲曾经是这片建筑工地的主人，现在她继承了这笔遗产：一位正在寻找工友的吉尔吉斯斯坦工人；一位前额有块反着光的红色皮肤的建筑师；一位曾在莫斯科路障旁与叶利钦比肩站立的导游。他们中的一些人会莫名其妙地流鼻血。一位年轻的学生问道，“我们是谁？我是谁？一切都混乱无章。”　　小阿列克谢•日耳曼用七个章节，将他祖国的精神面貌压缩成一部长叙述的象征性电影，一场流畅精心设计的人与摄影机之舞。

牢狱鸳

 肯特·马洛（蒙哥马利·克里夫特 饰）因酒驾而入狱，并在牢中认识了抢劫犯约翰·摩根（切斯特·莫里斯 饰）和杀人犯机关枪布奇（华莱士·比里 饰）。性格软弱的马洛入狱第一晚便遭到了布奇的欺凌，随后他与其他狱友也无法和谐相处，心怀不满的他在警察密探的怂恿下想要通过抓住布奇和摩根的把柄的方式来提前出狱。性格暴躁的布奇无法忍受牢中恶劣的饮食条件，在餐厅怂恿所有犯人一起抗议，最终遭到压制，布奇也因此被送往地牢，但他心中已打定主意要设法越狱。摩根性格狡猾，在狱中一直左右逢源，并因在狱中表现良好得到了提前出狱的假释机会，就在他喜不胜收准备出狱之时，某个突然而来的事件永远改变了他的命运。

等待方舟

　　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.