韵事：夫妻拼车

飞虎门郑坤奉命押送赈灾粮，他押送回来的赈灾粮全是沙石，郑坤锒铛入狱，几经周折，郑坤查出调换赈灾粮的罪魁祸首，郑坤与州府捕快左绫联手将贪污赈灾粮的人一干人等绳之以法，将他们一网打尽

　　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.

　　因为太子在“朝鲜之役”上所表现出的高瞻远瞩的智慧，万历对太子的态度大大改观，率众人到太子府看望自己的皇长孙。宴席之上，三皇子主动要求速速离开京城，到洛阳就封，众人大感疑惑。辞行宴上三皇子早早酒醉，原来是想借此机会带姚芊芊私奔，不想被金碧瑶破坏。知道三皇子和姚芊芊私情的王恭妃决定有所行动。王恭妃设计让金碧瑶假怀孕，姚芊芊在郑贵妃的胁迫下打算除掉金碧瑶腹中骨肉，却掉入王恭妃的陷阱。王恭妃以“善妒”为由，废掉了姚芊芊的太子妃。而一时间关于太子妃红杏出墙的传闻又弥漫京城，万历要王恭妃彻查此事，王恭妃巧妙的将太极推给了郑贵妃，姚芊芊命悬一线，而郑贵妃面对王恭妃步步为营的反攻，已回天乏术，她打算弃车保帅……姚芊芊驾鹤西去，三皇子悲伤不已。郑贵妃准备杖毙朱由桦。兰心为了保孩子周全，不惜与太子吵架。太子生气之下和梅儿一夜缠绵，认为梅儿是最懂他的人。

　　李·佩斯出演美国传奇汽车公司德劳瑞恩的创始人——天才汽车设计师约翰·德劳瑞恩，影片设定在1980年代，德劳瑞恩创建还没几年，正在崛起，聚焦约翰和苏戴奇斯饰演的Jim Hoffman的关系。Hoffman看似有趣迷人，其实他是一名前诈骗犯，现在为FBI工作，他来约翰这里当卧底，想要控告其贩毒。两人建立的一段有趣的bromance也很快急转直下，行差踏错。