花癡的秘密系列5

村在天堂邊

在索馬里沙漠的一個偏遠村莊，一個小男孩和爸爸、姑姑一同生活。父親靠臨時工作支撐家用，姑姑因為婚姻危機無奈躲到此處。他們樸素的心愿因為混亂不安的社會環境變得遙不可及，但家人之間仍充滿溫情瞬間。索馬里裔奧地利導演莫·哈拉韋的長片首作通過一個臨時家庭的境遇來展現動蕩時局對個人生活的吞噬。導演溫柔看待三位主人公，他以精致的構圖和色彩，在有條不紊的節奏下，安靜有力地鋪陳越發緊迫的生存之戰。本片是首部入圍2024年戛納電影節的索馬里題材影片，并一舉入圍一種關注單元和導演首作金攝影機獎兩大單元。

哪吒鬧海

 商末時期，陳塘關總兵李靖的夫人懷胎3年6個月，最終生下一個肉球，肉球中跳出一個伶俐可愛的男孩。李靖原當他是妖孽欲殺之而后快，幸太乙真人前來收之為徒，賜名哪吒，并賜以乾坤圈和混天綾兩件寶貝。某年，天下大旱，甘露未降。哪吒和家將到東海洗澡玩耍。他用混天綾攪動海水，撼動龍宮，惹出巡海夜叉李艮和龍王三太子敖丙。幾番言語不和，哪吒殺此二人，由此闖下通天大禍。四海龍王齊聚陳塘關索命，為救一方百姓，哪吒決定交出生命……本片根據《封神演義》故事改編，并榮獲1980年電影百花獎最佳美術片獎；文化部1979年優秀影片獎、青年優秀創作獎；1983年菲律賓馬尼拉國際電影節特別獎；1988年法國布爾波拉斯文化俱樂部青年國際動畫電影節評委獎和寬銀幕長動畫片獎。

銀瀑2：重現

　　Several years after a deadly struggle with her serial killer aunt, Jordan works to escape her troubled history. But when her aunt's revenge-seeking specter surfaces to join forces with a deranged convict, Jordan must return to the haunted town of Silver Falls for a final showdown with the ghosts of her past.

白日殺機

　　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。

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.

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