亵渎

　　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.

　　恩里克（费雷•马丁内兹 饰）和伊格莱西奥（弗朗西斯科•拜奥拉 饰）是教会学校的同学，更是一对同性恋人。学校的莫雷神父以留下恩里克为诱饵占有了伊格莱西奥，但最终恩里克还是离开了教会学校。这对同性恋人也就劳燕分飞。　　成年后的恩里克已是一名大有前途的导演。一天，伊格莱西奥带着剧本找到了恩里克，希望自己能出演男主角。剧本描写的就是他们的成长经历加上想象的成年经历，恩里克对剧本十分感兴趣，但却不同意由伊格莱西奥出演。　　当恩里克来到伊格莱西奥的家乡时，秘密一幕幕揭开……

　　改编自1930年代英国真实事件，一位牧师莱纳斯（约翰·赫夫南 饰）被教会任命为代理牧师，他带着妻子玛丽安（杰西卡·布朗·芬德利 饰）与女儿小爱搬进一座神秘庄园。　　但在他们入住这间屋子不久后，奇怪事情接二连三发生，除了在半夜会听见呢喃声，还会看见陌生的修道士身影，女儿小爱的行为也越来越陌生，随着被骚扰的次数越来越多，莱纳斯和玛丽安不得不寻求著名的捉鬼专家哈利（西恩·哈里斯 饰）帮忙。　　他们必须一起揭开真相，找出这栋房子的超自然力量还有它可怕且惊人的过去……

　　为了证明自己不再是“小不点”，海绵宝宝下定决心，要向蟹老板展现他真正的勇气。 他毅然决然追随那位神秘的、纵横四海的幽灵海盗——“飞天魔鬼”，开启了一段惊心动魄、颠覆想象的深海大冒险！这段旅程将带他闯入深海禁区，见证海绵从未触及的神秘世界！