美味的电影

　　娜奥米-沃茨在影片中扮演一个名叫玛丽的儿童心理学家，她遭遇了人生中最不幸的事件：丈夫被一场离奇车祸夺去了性命，儿子则因这次灾难变成了植物人。一次偶然的机会，玛丽邂逅了一个叫汤姆的患儿，她将这个诡异的男孩带回家抚养，却因此招来了一连串不可思议的事件。

　　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.

　　夜深人静之时，年轻女子瑞切尔（Anessa Ramsey 饰）和艾莉莎（Hannah Bryan 饰）突然遭到神秘之人的袭击和绑架。当她们清醒过来后，发现自己正被绑在一座谷仓中，戴着面具的恐怖男子为她们举行邪气逼人的仪式。另一方面，受债务困扰的男人本（AJ Bowen 饰）联合女友艾米（卡瑟琳·兰道夫 Katherine Randolph 饰）、弟弟汤米（安德鲁·布瑞兰 Andrew Breland 饰）以及陌生男人保罗（Sonny Marinelli 饰）策划绑架了富有商人瑞恩·海登（詹姆斯·巴兹 James Bartz 饰）的女儿，并索取高达两百万美元的赎金。　　正当本和保罗众人为了赎金起整治的时候，死里逃生的瑞切尔突然出现，随之而来的还有残忍的春之祭杀人魔……

　　In the near future, drugs and crime have risen 500%. A disintegrating police force is unable to deal with this horrifying problem...