趁人之危

　　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.

　　肖恩·利维将再次合作老搭档二十世纪福斯，执导新片[陨石坑](Crater，暂译)，利维也将约翰·J·格里芬执笔的原创剧本进行改编。故事被描述为科幻版的[ 伴我同行 ]，讲述在月球殖民地长大的男孩，和三个小伙伴共同前往一处神秘陨石坑探秘，不料却发生意外。影片剧本曾经入选2015年“好莱坞剧本黑名单”。

　　幸福的三口之家，可爱的小女孩亚美却经常对着空气说话，并言称有一个无依无靠的小弟弟跟在身边。她的举止令父母非常担心，而诡异的事件也相继发生。亚美的妈妈小萍是一所高中的老师，她的学生阿波与关儿相恋。青春男女爱火正炽，无所顾忌，终于令关儿不慎怀孕。为了免去负担与压力，关儿最终找到无照女医引产，这也正是他们痛苦的开始。另有一美貌女明星，适值人气下滑，而她又因不负责任的男友不断怀孕，人生渐渐陷入困境。　　在这些所谓时尚男女的附近，寂寞冷清的寺院内痛苦悲伤的婴灵无助哀号。各人欠债各人还，以杀生换取的幸福终究带着浓浓的血腥……

活力少女梦想着一场完美的成人礼，于是与孤独的新来者达成一项协议，但意外的心动和真相也许会让计划彻底泡汤。