透明變態(tài)人間

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.

教皇行動

照亮黑暗

Follows the relentless journey of a determined young woman as she unravels the disturbing truth behind a serial rapist.

魔影襲人來

 獲獎：1943年奧斯卡最佳劇本獎介紹：二戰(zhàn)初期，一艘毀壞的潛水艇擱淺在加拿大海灣?？駸岬募{粹船長和他的全體船員必須抵達當時中立的美國，否則他們要被捉拿。一路上他們遇上形形色色的人物，對戰(zhàn)爭和愛國主義抱著各自的態(tài)度。在本片中導演鮑威爾和演員艾默力．皮斯伯格針對美國參加同盟國對抗納粹的原因而展現(xiàn)出他們獨特的觀點。

靜水

　　在明尼蘇達州北部的“邊界水域”中，六個老朋友之間的周末露營之旅在神秘的環(huán)境下死亡后變得悲慘起來，隨著他們企圖在本集團內(nèi)揭露殺手，引發(fā)進一步的動蕩。

致命玩笑

　　一對兄弟姐妹在一家偏僻的汽車旅館里度過了一個可怕的惡作劇之夜。