我的女儿，我的天使

　　提奥·詹姆斯、艾米丽·拉塔科夫斯基(《消失的爱人》)主演犯罪新片《谎言与偷窃》(Lying and Stealing)首曝剧照，近日刚于洛杉矶开拍。Matt Aselton(《不可思议》)执导，讲述一个年轻、圆滑的贼Ivan，他的专长是盗窃洛杉矶上层集团的高端艺术品，事业发展很顺利，但他想退出。Elyse是一名很有前途的女演员，她的密室里堆有成山的建筑骨架和大量债务。两位机灵的骗子决定合作，参与一项大胆的抢劫案。　　弗雷德·迈拉麦德(《严肃的男人》《炸天女郎》)、Ebon Moss-Bachrach(《惩罚者》《末日孤舰》)、Isiah Whitlock Jr.(《迷雾》《副总统》)、伊万·汉德勒(《加州靡情》《欲望都市》)、约翰·盖汀斯(《铁甲钢拳》《极品飞车》)等参演，Michael Costigan(《断背山》《美国黑帮》)、Naomi Despres(《一级重罪》《杀死信使》)、Christopher Tricarico(《高堡奇人》《五月夏日》)、Mohamed AlRafi(《毋庸置疑》)共同制片。

　　现场网的马楠（孙骁潇 饰）和小鱼（吴楚 饰）是一对相恋多年的情侣，马楠不久在郊外购得一处房产，刚好又赶上小鱼的生日。于是他叫来同事兼好友张博（吴超 饰）、吴晓（冯波 饰）、龙梅（王思思 饰），为小鱼策划了一次生日派对，并计划向小鱼求婚。除了曾与小鱼有过露水因缘张博外，整晚的派对都在欢快的气氛下进行。马楠家隔壁住着一对经常吵架的夫妻，异常聒噪的吵闹声引起吴晓等八卦女的好奇，她们结伴来到隔壁一探究竟，却意外发现恐怖血腥的杀人现场。　　原本就住户稀少的公寓，此时仿佛变成一座巨大的鬼屋。不断闪烁的灯光，凄厉刺耳的尖叫声以及丧心病狂的杀人者。一种如瘟疫般的病毒在公寓内肆意蔓延……

A little girl has secret superpowers but can’t use them when a highway project is threatening the nearby forest. Desperate to save it, she invents an elaborate lie about an endangered flying squirrel inhabiting the woods.

　　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.