情欲春宵

　　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.

　　故事发生在位于伊利诺斯州的哈登菲尔德小镇。臭名昭著的杀人狂迈克尔（泰勒·梅恩 Tyler Mane 饰）终于倒在了少女劳利（丝柯·泰勒-考普顿 Scout Taylor-Compton 饰）的枪下，然而之后他的尸体却神秘的消失了，与此同时，在医院里，出现了一个身份诡异而又神秘的病人，又一场血腥的杀戮即将拉开序幕。　　幸运的劳利再一次的从迈克尔的屠刀下死里逃生，可是，巨大的阴影始终笼罩在她的周围，因为她知道，迈克尔一天不死，就总会再度回到她的身边。一晃眼一年过去，万圣节又要来了，与此同时将要举办的，是死难者的纪念会。劳利能够感觉到，一双熟悉的眼睛正在默默的注视着她。

　　经历了上一集的风风雨雨，艾利克斯（林子祥 饰）和朱丽娥（郑裕玲 饰）总算是两情相悦走到了一起。他们决定在新年之后携手步入婚礼的殿堂，然而，在此节骨眼上，艾利克斯被公司紧急召唤加班，两人本来温馨愉快的假期生活泡了汤。　　乔伊（张曼玉 饰）是艾利克斯的同事，两人双双被派往巴黎出差。爱人不在身边，这让朱丽娥感到十分没有安全感，再加上表哥（许绍雄 饰）的挑拨离间听风就是雨，心态爆炸的朱丽娥决定也前往巴黎，看好自己的未婚夫。一连串的误会让朱丽娥和乔伊之间的关系跌破了冰点，她和艾利克斯的感情也因此产生了裂痕。

 米尔德雷德（弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德 Frances McDormand 饰）的女儿在外出时惨遭奸杀，米尔德雷德和丈夫查理（约翰·哈克斯 John Hawkes 饰）之间的婚姻因此走到了尽头，如今，她同儿子罗比（卢卡斯·赫奇斯 Lucas Hedges饰）过着相依为命的生活。一晃眼几个月过去了，案件仍然没有告破预兆，而警方似乎早已经将注意力从案子上转移了开来。被绝望和痛苦缠绕的米尔德雷德租下了高速公路边上的三块巨型广告牌，在上面控诉警方办案无能，并将矛头直接对准了警察局局长威洛比（伍迪·哈里森 Woody Harrelson 饰）。实际上，威洛比一直隐瞒着自己身患绝症命不久矣的事实。因为这三块广告牌，米尔德雷德和威洛比的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化。