茶花女

　　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.

　　外人看来，彼得（连姆·尼森 Liam Neeson 饰）无疑是一个幸福的男人，妻子丽萨（劳拉·琳妮 Laura Linney 饰）温柔漂亮，两人的婚姻稳定而美满。可近日来，彼得发现丽萨的行为举止越来越奇怪，多疑的他本能的想到，丽萨可能已经另结新欢了。面对妻子的出轨，占有欲极强的彼得感到妒火中烧，通过种种线索，一个名叫雷夫（安东尼奥·班德拉斯 Antonio Banderas 饰）的男人浮出了水面。　　追随着丽萨的脚步，彼得来到了意大利，在这里，他果然见到了雷夫。狡猾的彼得决定先隐藏身份，接近雷夫。可是，随着彼得和雷夫的关系越来越近，彼得发现自己渐渐无法控制自己的言行，他对雷夫的存在深恶痛绝，恨不得杀之而后快。

 这是一部极为出色的关于人与自然的电影。1902年和1907年，沙俄军官阿尔谢尼耶夫两次率领勘探队到乌苏里地区探险，都巧遇赫哲族老猎手德尔苏·乌扎拉。德尔苏.乌扎拉为勘探队充当向导，并挽救了阿尔谢尼耶夫的生命，与之建立了深厚的情谊。德苏对大自然相当了解与尊重，藉由他的示范 与见解，让人们了解大自然的伟大与残酷，人是可以与大自然和平相处，但当大自然被破坏时，人们将是第一个遭殃。德苏是一个神枪手，但后来在一次打猎时，德苏发现自己的眼睛因为身体衰老而退化，看不清猎物了，十分沮丧。他随阿尔谢尼耶夫到大城市伯力居住。但是，城市文明德苏却无法习惯，城市和他过去赖以生存的地方，那片纯朴的自然大地是完全不同的。猎人离开枪，离开了他所熟悉的环境，仿佛鱼儿离开了水。“城里没法狩猎，不狩猎就没有貂”“我突然想念空气。”他象是被囚禁了一般，闷闷不乐。德苏执意回到山里，回到那片密林。但是，猎人没有好的视力，便是最大的悲剧。猎人不能猎杀，自己便被会猎杀。勇敢的德苏虽然带着阿尔谢尼耶夫送给他的新猎枪，但是他却死了……

　　一对年轻夫妇准备烧毁洛杉矶最热门迪厅的舞池，结果召唤出一股渴望未出世婴儿的黑暗力量