迷惘热爱

超级黑暗时代

　　故事发生在上世纪90年代的一个美国小镇上。扎克和乔西从童年时就是最好的朋友，他们每天一起骑车上下学，放学后一起玩耍，甚至喜欢上同一个女孩。然而平静的生活在某天下午被彻底打破了。聚会因大麻而失控，朋友达里尔在教室里失血过多身亡，男孩们恐慌无措地要彼此发誓保密，扎克简单的生活仿佛被撕开了一道巨大的口子，整日被罪恶感压迫地喘不过气，乔西则索性不再上学，甚至不再走出家门一步。曾经密不可分的两个男孩在数日后便产生了不可逾越的鸿沟……

荣归1978

 战争结束了，但留下的悲剧从来都不会就此断绝。在位于美国加州的一家伤兵医院里，卢克（强·沃特 Jon Voight 饰）痛苦的躺在病床上。战争彻底的夺走了他剩余人生里的幸福和自由，半身不遂的他注定再也享受不到生为一个正常人的快乐了。因为种种，卢克每天都生活在抑郁和愤怒之中。莎莉（简·方达 Jane Fonda 饰）的丈夫鲍勃（布鲁斯·邓恩 Bruce Dern 饰）是一名军官。身为军官之妻，莎莉有义务对在战争中遭难的军人们进行安抚。就这样，莎莉邂逅了卢克，并且在时间的推移之中深深的爱上了他。为了给予卢克继续活下去的希望，她不惜用自己的身体去引诱卢克。

格斗家·父爱无声

　　小说作家阿真和她的拳王父亲，从小就有很深的隔阂，在父亲离世后，阿真用自己的方式与父亲和解，并且在小说世界中完成了文与武的转换，经历了善与恶的抉择，成功蜕变，为父正名，成为了真正的格斗家！

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　　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.