欲望之岛

战国奇谭妖刀传剧场版

等待方舟

　　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.

母亲2009

　　因为儿子尹泰宇（元斌 饰）是智障，所以母亲（金惠子 饰）总是担心他受伤。一天，泰宇被一辆奔驰车撞倒，朋友镇泰（秦久 饰）带他去高尔夫球场找打球的教授报仇，结果被带回了警局。因为镇泰踢坏了后视镜，教授向他们索赔，泰宇被当成了挡箭牌。 从警局出来后，在家吃过晚饭，泰宇去找镇泰喝酒，但此时镇泰趁着夜色回到球场找出了白天扔进湖中的球杆。泰宇酒后尾随一个名叫文雅中的女学生，结果第二天雅中的尸体就出现在屋顶。泰宇被当做唯一的嫌疑人带回了警局，接着在警察的威胁下画押认罪。得知儿子入狱，心急如焚的母亲委托著名律师为他翻案。但是，泰宇的病影响了他的记忆，母亲在替儿申冤的道路上步履蹒跚……

三十一

　　万圣节前一天，五名狂欢节员工被绑架挟持到一个称为“肃杀世界”的孤立院子。在万圣节时，他们会被扔进一个名叫“31”的虐待狂的游戏中，他们将面对一群穿得像小丑一样的疯子。然而，小丑并不是唯一需要担心的，一个更宏大的邪教仪式和更残酷的阴谋将被唤醒......