籠中欲鳥

遠(yuǎn)足驚魂

　　講述一個(gè)從阿富汗的退役的女兵凱特組織了一群年輕美貌的少女到英國(guó)鄉(xiāng)村業(yè)林里探險(xiǎn)活動(dòng)……

王勝：紫色

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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.

絕種好男人

　　因忍受不了男友Moses（任賢齊）的平凡，阿Mi狠心與他分手，塞翁失馬焉知禍福，Moses在老人院做義工時(shí)，與怪脾氣老頭蛤蚧王成為忘年之交，后者死后，給他留下巨額遺產(chǎn)。蛤蚧王的此舉招致其律師Allen的不滿，他在夜總會(huì)發(fā)泄時(shí)無意中將此事告訴了小姐Didi（張柏芝）?！　閷oses釣到手，Didi使出渾身解數(shù)，無奈均不奏效。發(fā)現(xiàn)Moses是絕種好男人后，Didi對(duì)他動(dòng)了真心，兩人開始熱戀，不久，Allen將Didi的原來身份相告Moses，令他異常傷心，此時(shí)，阿Mi又前來要與他復(fù)合。

警長(zhǎng)索恩：貪睡鬼

　　一起連環(huán)兇殺案吸引了警長(zhǎng)索恩（大衛(wèi)·莫瑞瑟 David Morrissey 飾）的注意，這位窮兇極惡的兇手手中已經(jīng)有了三條人命，然而，第四名受害者卻僥幸逃過一死。警方和民眾都認(rèn)為這是兇手的百密一疏造就的結(jié)果。然而，可怕的是，沒過多久，索恩就發(fā)現(xiàn)，犯錯(cuò)的不是兇手，而恰恰是自己，因?yàn)楸M管保住了一命，但這位幸存者卻無法提供任何情報(bào)?！　灼鹪谕粫r(shí)間、使用同一手法在兩個(gè)不同地點(diǎn)作案的謀殺案讓警長(zhǎng)索恩十分警覺，隨著時(shí)間的推移，迷霧漸漸撥開，他發(fā)現(xiàn)，自己所要面對(duì)的并非僅僅一名嗜血?dú)埍┑臍⑷四?，而是兩個(gè)在暗地里相互勾結(jié)、相互鼓勵(lì)的反社會(huì)分子。

肖菲勒