偶像性丑聞（2015）-Idol Sex Scandal (2015)

一個著名老藝術家那關系疏遠的親戚向一個苦苦掙扎的年輕藝術家尋求幫助，要去竊取老者未做完的作品并將其完成。

　　一對黑人兄妹相依為命，哥哥卻被白人警察誤殺，你猜猜她會怎么辦？對抗強權為黑人群體發聲？并不，妹妹居然造了一架時光機器，回到過去好讓自己的哥哥免于槍殺！

　　一次偶然中，布蘭登（馬修·麥康納 Matthew McConaughey 飾）發現自己竟然擁有一項如此神奇的特異功能——他能夠準確預測出每周末舉行的橄欖球比賽的結果。這一能力徹底扭轉了布蘭登失意而又頹廢的生活，同時也將他卷入了金錢和利益所構造的漩渦之中。　　沃特（阿爾·帕西諾 Al Pacino 飾）經營著一家體育顧問公司，布蘭登的神奇能力在他的眼中無異于是一根點石成金的魔杖。野心勃勃的他找到了布蘭登，千方百計的說服了后者加入了他的公司。從此，沃特的事業扶搖直上，布蘭登也在沃特的身上找到了親情和友情。但隨著布蘭登的能力的逐漸流逝，他和沃特之間的關系也開始了動搖。兩人心中都有各自的想法，而最終的贏家只有一個。

　　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.