嗲囡囡FEILIN-寫真集 VN.026 Cheryl青樹

等待方舟

　　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.

平原上的迷途

　　卡洛比安奇和多里亞諾是兩個生活拮據的五十多歲男人，他們秉持著“絕不錯過最后一杯酒”的人生哲學。在一次偶然的機會中，他們結識了朱利奧，一位性格內向、對人生感到迷茫的建筑學學生。這場看似不經意的邂逅，卻逐漸演變成了一場穿越威尼斯平原的混亂公路旅行。　　在旅途中，糟糕的建議、宿醉的困擾以及意料之外的友情，不斷挑戰朱利奧對人生和愛情的原有計劃。這場旅程不僅重新定義了他們彼此的生活，也讓朱利奧開始重新思考自己的未來方向。

天鵝中的狼

消失的人

 一個尋常的清晨，唐宇（鄭愷 飾）的兒子在樓梯間憑空消失；隔壁單元里，獨居女孩林雨彤（劉浩存 飾）在熟睡中被人侵犯；賭鬼租客嚴午（邱澤 飾）滿身血污，謊編蹤跡藏匿尸體。這棟看似平靜、不起眼的居民樓里，每個擦肩而過的“熟人”，都有可能是藏著獠牙的惡鬼。當人心比鬼更可怕時，你每天出入的家門，都可能是通往地獄的入口……本片改編自豆瓣閱讀連載小說《?？?，作者貝客邦。