欲闷小姨子

　　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.

　　在這個神祕又黑暗的城市裡，犯罪，只是家常便飯。被絕症折磨的教師比爾（賽門佩吉飾演）試圖自我了斷，但始終想死卻死不成。某日，比爾在深夜的咖啡廳裡結識了美豔金髮女服務生安妮（瑪格羅比飾演）。兩人竟因為「如何成功自殺」這話題而打開話匣子，培養出一段詭異友誼…。而在城市的另一角落，兩位正在執行危險任務的殺手（麥斯艾朗、戴克斯特佛萊契飾演），為了獲得高額賞金在城市之間來回奔走，急切想要找到暗殺目標的線索…。　　然而夜班警衛（麥克邁爾斯飾演）的出現，竟意外牽起這兩組貌似毫無關聯的人物。隨著一樁又一樁的犯罪事件發生，也逐漸揭露出眾人的神秘過去，以及交織而成的愛恨情仇。最終，他們發現自己全被捲入一場錯綜複雜的犯罪大計。究竟他們能否找出事實真相？而事件背後的神秘主謀又是誰呢？

安妮和托马斯正处于离婚边缘，这时安妮发生了中风，迫使他们不得不继续住在一起，并推迟了告诉孩子们他们即将分开的消息。面对这一新的现实，两人在最意想不到的地方找到了希望。

影片讲述了昆明翠湖畔的一段家庭往事。老人树文在丧妻后想要重启人生新的情感阶段，却与女儿们爆发冲突，在这场冲突中让他看清自己在家庭里的“缺位”，也促使他重新承担起家长的责任，在直面三代人，三个家庭之间深藏的遗憾与隐痛的过程中，展开了一段寻求和解的温情旅程。