美容室：特殊服務(wù)5

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.

地獄無淚

沖動2023

　　一位內(nèi)向的俄羅斯父親和十幾歲的女兒住在一輛面包車里。面包車裝著他們的全部生活，包括一套電影放映設(shè)備。那是他們微薄收入的來源。這對無名的父女從南到北，在他們廣闊國家的極端氣候中漫游。

我能有個見證人嗎

　　Can I Get a Witness? tells the story of a mother and daughter in a near-future world where huge sacrifices are made to maintain life on Earth.　　With its resources swallowed by e-waste and overpopulation, the world is experiencing an anthropogenic collapse. To manage, technological advances are shunned. Nobody has electricity and only people with exceptions are permitted cars. Most importantly, there is also a collective agreement that nobody is allowed to live beyond the age of 50.　　Oh’s Ellie lives with her teenage daughter Kiah (Keira Jang), who is starting her first day as a Documenter, an important role in this new world order. She uses her artistic gifts — beautifully conjured in animations — to draw the dying ceremonies, since printing and photography have been banned.　　Kiah is paired with Daniel (Joel Oulette), the young man who performs the contractual elements of each person’s end-of-life ceremony. He matter-of-factly provides the packages a person can choose, sets them up when the time comes, and performs the burials. But his new coworker is having a hard time handling the emotional impacts of the job.

靈殤

　　亞歷斯和莎瑪是一對年輕戀人，他們于前往波斯尼亞與赫塞哥維納中心時車子拋錨在森林里，他們決定向附近的村莊求援。路上，巴爾干戰(zhàn)亂的穆斯林幸存者莎瑪，開始懷疑有神秘力量追高清在跟著他們，而自信、快樂的年輕歐洲人亞歷斯，試圖讓莎瑪甩開這些胡思亂想；但莎瑪緊握著她的穆斯林護身符「哈麥利亞」不放，導致神秘力量從森林里逐漸浮現(xiàn)…

舉起手來2：追擊阿多丸號

　　1945年，第二次世界大戰(zhàn)接近尾聲，軸心國已成強弩之末，敗局已定。許多戰(zhàn)爭中被俘虜?shù)娜毡臼勘?jīng)過改造后，陸續(xù)踏上回國的旅途，這其中便包括羅圈腿中村下等兵（潘長江 飾）。然而，即使在這垂死關(guān)頭，帝國主義的貪婪仍舊沒有收斂。輪椅太君（胡曉光 飾）傷愈出院，親自負責指揮戰(zhàn)艦阿多丸運送傷兵回國的重任，但是阿多丸還有一個秘密任務(wù)，那就是將從中國劫掠來的文物偷運出境。這個秘密被小劉（劉小微 飾）的父親——一個文物老專家所得知，他掌握著所有文物的清單，也因此遭到日寇的追殺。臨死之際，老教授將藏有清單的可樂瓶交給擔任聯(lián)絡(luò)員的郭大叔（郭達 飾）。偵知到日本人的陰謀，八路軍以及重慶方面的勢力都行動起來?！　《谶@一過程中，更大的陰謀也悄悄浮出水面……