拉芙蕾丝

　　在一辆开往莫斯科的火车上，军事学院的学生安德烈.托尔斯泰（欧列格·缅希科夫 Oleg Menshikov饰）偶遇了风情万种的美国女人珍（朱莉娅·奥蒙德 Julia Ormond 饰），两人暗生情愫。珍谎称自己是个寡妇，来俄罗斯看 望疯狂的机械师父亲（理查德·哈里斯 Richard Harris 饰），但实际上是被请来骗取军事学院院长拉德洛夫将军（阿列克谢·彼得连科 Aleksey Petrenko 饰）信任的交际花，好让机械师的“西伯利亚理发师”伐木机能够顺利驶进西柏林亚。但是没想到将军对珍动了真感情，并想向她求婚，而安德烈对珍的感情愈演愈烈，珍一方面想接受安德烈的感情，另一方面又想完成任务，于是事件发展到了不可收拾的地步。在一次演出中安德烈因为嫉妒和误会，抽伤了院长，被流放到了西伯利亚。在火车站上尽管珍赶上了最后的送别，但是安德烈始终没能和珍见最后一面。十年后，珍终于在西伯利亚找到了安德烈的住所，但终究逃不过命运的改变……若干年后珍回到了美国，把这段往事在信中讲述给了军事学院的儿子。

　　某座住宅区，负责公寓内各项维修事务的菲恩（Matt O'Leary 饰）和约瑟（George Finn 饰）是一对穷的叮当响的好基友。某天菲恩的女友凯莉（Danielle Panabaker 饰）来到他们的住处，当得知住在隔壁的贝先生已经很长时间没走出房门时，凯莉自告奋勇上门查看，结果却一脸错愕地回到二人面前。原来贝先生早已不见踪影，房间内一面墙贴满了以三个人为对象的拍立得照片，窗口则有一台奇怪的机器正对着菲恩和约瑟的房间。不久后他们发现，那台机器竟是可以拍摄到未来情景的照相机。他们发现了贝先生的尸体，然而因为照相机的原因秘藏了此事。　　无意间拥有了窥视未来的手段，年轻人们的心不知不觉躁动起来……

　　典型都市女性Diana（郑裕玲 饰）有着骄人的事业成绩，也积极经营着自己的爱情。可是香港经济不景气，她与同公司的小职员韦大汉（曾志伟 饰）都在了裁员的名单上。韦大汉早年妻子因为好赌离家出走，丢下了女儿千华（杨千嬅 饰）及小儿子万华需要供养。他向儿女隐瞒自己已经被解雇的事实，可是Diana的出现让千华及弟弟都知道了爸爸的真实情况。原来Diana的出现是想跟他们参加一个家庭制的游戏，只有胜出游戏，电视台便会原价收购他们的负资产业。Diana是一个自私冷酷的人，在游戏的过程中，被大汉付出在儿女身上的感情而改变了她。千华也在游戏中与导演（陈奕迅 饰）产生了感情。游戏最终由他们胜出，可是千华亲生母亲的出现使局面彻底改变了……

　　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.