空姐艳谈

　　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.

　　创意鬼才亨利·塞利克和制片人乔丹·皮尔这次带来动画《恶魔兄弟》，讲述了狡猾的恶魔兄弟温德尔（科甘-迈克尔·凯配音）和瓦尔德（皮尔配音）向凯特·艾略特（一名被负罪感支配的坚强少女）求助，希望她能将他们召唤至人间。但与之相对的，凯特也提出要求，进而引发了一场奇异无比、笑料百出的独特冒险。影片全篇采用定格动画的手工艺术进行制作，是一部无视生死法则的动画狂想曲。

 1985年，浓雾笼罩的郊外，周日早晨少女丽莎·约翰逊（阿比盖尔·布蕾斯琳 Abigail Breslin 饰）被弟弟罗比（Peter DaCunha 饰）吵醒。她颇感烦恼地起床，按照妈妈（米歇尔·诺尔顿 Michelle Nolden 饰）的指示洗衣服，爸爸布鲁斯（彼德·奥德博拉治 Peter Outerbridge 饰）则在地下室修着汽车。看似平凡无奇的普通人家，却弥漫着诡异神秘的气息。不知曾几何时，丽莎发现每天重复着同样的内容，家人反复干着同样的事、说着同样的话、度过同一个浓雾笼罩的周末。她尝试改变这一切，然而无从下手，此外更有带着死神气息的男子警告丽莎不要破坏当前的一切。无法忍受折磨的丽莎，不可避免落入过去、现在和未来的夹缝中，局势完全失控……

 故事发生在二十世纪三十年代初期，莉莲（简·方达 Jane Fonda 饰）前往维也纳寻找自己曾经的好友茱莉亚（瓦妮莎·雷德格瑞夫 Vanessa Redgrave 饰），到达目的地之后，莉莲才知道，茱莉亚因为和法西斯支持者发生了激烈冲突而受伤住进了医院，之后不知所踪。在莉莲回归自己的生活之后，她意外的收到了茱莉亚的来信，在信中，茱莉亚请求莉莲帮助自己投运五万美元给反纳粹组织，尽管这一举动在当时意味着巨大的危险，但是莉莲还是答应了茱莉亚，最终，两个多年未见的好友在柏林重逢。然而，没过多久，莉莲便受到了茱莉亚的死讯，在悲痛之中，莉莲明白，自己还有未完成的任务。