山莊情挑

圣誕不快樂(lè)

　　在這部感人的喜劇中，一個(gè)脾氣暴躁的男人在圣誕節(jié)被詛咒，一年后醒來(lái)，卻發(fā)現(xiàn)他注定要一遍又一遍地重溫平安夜。

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　　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.

眠山怪影

　　In a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters.

鬼滴語(yǔ)3

　　在那場(chǎng)悲劇發(fā)生25年后，一個(gè)年輕的少年發(fā)現(xiàn)了屬于他祖父的神秘盒子……

別怕，是我

糖果 ??

作為程序員工作的職場(chǎng)媽媽米拉，11歲的兒子?xùn)|明突然被判定為“1型糖尿病”，受到?jīng)_擊。醫(yī)生說(shuō)她一輩子都要注射胰島素，對(duì)此她感到絕望，但她忍住眼淚站了起來(lái)。米拉活用自己曾是工程學(xué)專業(yè)的專業(yè)，引進(jìn)國(guó)內(nèi)未上市的連續(xù)血糖測(cè)定儀，給東明戴上，并聯(lián)動(dòng)監(jiān)護(hù)人遠(yuǎn)程監(jiān)測(cè)血糖。有采血恐懼的東明使糖尿病管理變得容易，米拉的家人從低血糖休克的焦慮中解放出來(lái)。在環(huán)友會(huì)會(huì)員的請(qǐng)求接踵而至后，米拉開(kāi)始告訴孩子們?nèi)绾沃苯舆M(jìn)口并聯(lián)動(dòng)連續(xù)血糖測(cè)定儀，以幫助他們和兒子遭受同樣的疾病。但是，米拉被指控是未經(jīng)許可的非法醫(yī)療器械，在沒(méi)有通關(guān)的情況下進(jìn)口，沒(méi)有交稅?！瓰榱思胰耍瑸榱藲g友會(huì)，她與世界對(duì)抗的故事將展開(kāi)。