Ymode DX vol.58 白石みずほ

麦哲伦是一位航海家，他秉持人道主义精神和对正义的信仰，反抗国王的权力。然而，当他最终掌管香料舰队，完成首次环球航行后，他的旅程又将如何揭开他自身的谜团呢？

　　佐藤铃（道本成美）为了逃避母亲（南久松真奈）的过度干涉，在川上信夫（泉知束）的引导下，前往东京的一处房产进行内览。尽管被告知前住户山本孝雄（岩永ひひお）因欠租而失踪，铃仍被这处优质房产所吸引。信夫提议她单独继续内览时，铃顺从了他的建议。然而，她在房中听到某种不祥的声音，被引导着打开了一扇通往异世界的门，随后被强行拉了进去。醒来后，她发现自己身处一座荒废的巨大建筑中，迷茫中遇到了自称山本孝雄的男子。这个空间被某个怪物所支配，既无法逃脱，也无法死去，真正的无间地狱。

　　威尼斯的地平线单元中，出现了这样一部电影，不扯人性，“三观”却正到让人大呼过瘾，这就是讲述了一个干脆利落的复仇故事的西班牙电影《迟来的愤怒》。　　影片讲述了一个男人为了替在抢劫案中惨死的女友和变成植物人的老爸报仇，潜伏八年，甚至睡了抢劫团伙司机的孩子他妈，只为等他出狱，威胁他，顺藤摸瓜找到躲藏起来的真凶们，一个一个复仇。

　　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.