花癡的秘密系列5

 敘述日本人潛伏中國武館，化裝紅衣蒙面人，屢次暗殺立志北伐的愛國志士，后來被揭穿的懸疑武打故事。這片子真可以當成偵破片來看，武館的人一個一個被殺，兇手究竟是誰...

　　故事描述了陳偉（章宇 飾）和性感美女艾菲（亦涵 飾）前往一處廢棄多年的化工廠做規劃設計，卻意外陷入了一連串恐怖事件的故事。一路上，艾菲作為第三者，主動示愛陳偉，兩人暗地里偷偷交往，而陳偉則在背叛自己的女友的情況下接受了這種行為。他們抵達化工廠后，發現這里布滿了詭異的氛圍：墻上刻著血字，艾菲突然消失了。陳偉意識到自己可能已經陷入了一個危險的陷阱，成為了神秘人設計的犧牲品。　　陳偉與神秘人展開了搏斗，試圖逃出險境。在這場斗智斗勇中，他們面臨著生死攸關的局面。最終，是否能夠成功逃生，成為故事的懸念。然而，即使逃脫了生理上的危機，陳偉還將面臨道德和良知的拷問。他的背叛行為是否值得，他對自己和他人的所作所為是否感到內疚和后悔，這些問題也將成為他未來的挑戰。

　　1990年，一艘巨大的飛船出現在地球上空，人們惶恐不安，卻又分外好奇。經過一段時間緊張的等待，外星飛船始終沒有動靜。人類終于小心翼翼靠近它，強行走進艙內，結果發現了不計其數的外星人。他們形容丑陋，宛如蝦子，而且健康狀況極差，虛弱無力。原來這是一群來自外星的難民，他們最終被地球人接納，并隔離在南非約翰內斯堡的一片區域內生活，此地名為“第九區”。經過長達20年的繁衍，外星難民的數量擴張至180萬之多，且和周邊人類的矛盾沖突不斷，越來越多的人類呼吁將“大蝦”趕出地球。　　MNU（列國同盟組織）經過磋商，決定將外星難民遷移到更為偏遠的區域。MNU外星事務部門的特工威庫斯（Sharlto Copley 飾）專門負責搬遷工作。威庫斯在動員過程中傲慢隨意，與當地居民沖突頻頻。最終，他為自己的行為付出代價，外星人的神秘流體將其感染，威庫斯慢慢變成了外星人的模樣……

　　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.