PEACE 熊田曜子寫真

　　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.

　　兩名高等法院的法官遭殺手謀殺，法學院高材生達比（朱莉婭?羅伯茨 Julia Roberts 飾）隨后開始調查此案，起草一份該案的報告，名為《塘鵝報告》。達比找到了記者格蘭（丹澤爾?華盛頓 Denzel Washington 飾），因為他是最后一名見到其中一名法官的人，希望能得到他的幫助調查此案。一天格蘭接到了一個神秘人來電，此人自稱知道誰是該案兇手，格蘭跟蹤到了此人，可惜未能攔下他。　　此時，總統暗中命令相關人士不要插手此案。格蘭由此起疑，隨后調查到了總統和馬氏集團關系密切，而且一切證據都表明，馬氏與兩位法官的死有著千絲萬縷的關系！

這是系列首次以露伴的責任編輯、同時也是其得力搭檔——泉京香為主人公展開的故事。這一次，京香因露伴的一句話，被卷入一場難以想象的怪異事件。本作在原作者荒木飛呂彥的協助下完成劇本創作，并由在國際上也備受關注的導演組合“5月”的關友太郎與平瀨謙太朗共同執筆，推出全新原創故事。

　　一顆神秘小行星接近地球，后墜入海中，不想其實際上是外星的自動侵略武器，專門吸食地球的資源和電量，更可怕的是如果不能摧毀這個武器，還會有更多的外星武器來到地球。。