红粉计

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.

一百样东西

　　安东尼（马提亚斯·施维赫夫 Matthias Schweighöfer 饰）和保罗（弗洛里安·大卫·弗里茨 Florian David Fitz 饰）是从小玩到大的青梅竹马，两人共同经历了太多的事情，彼此之间的友谊坚不可破。成年之后，他们一起创办了一家公司，这一天，公司觅得了一名非常慷慨的投资人，为了庆祝这件事情，公司里开设了一场盛大的派对，在派对上，玩的兴起的安东尼和保罗决定打一个赌，赌注是公司百分之五十的股份。　　安东尼和保罗交出了身上所有的东西，两人回归到身无分文的状态，然后每一天，他们都可以在他们所拥有的东西里拿回一件，如此往复，看谁能够撑更长的时间，先放弃的人就是输家。

天鹅中的狼

伤心童话

　　影视公司宣传企划杨佳（刘诗诗 饰）得了怪病，命悬一线。暗恋她的程序员刘同（胡夏 饰）为使她不留遗憾，决定在她每次昏迷苏醒之际，以穿越之名为她圆梦。但，刘同的行动并不顺利，除了突发情况带来的穿帮，还有来自情敌尹哲（大左 饰）的奋力阻挠、戳穿。刘同竭尽全力与重重困难斗智斗勇，结果却完全出人意料——原来，杨佳并非真病，她是为对付上司骚扰，佯作患疾。刘同的努力，她完全明了，刘同为她精心设计的从民国到未来，跨越200年的美妙梦境，让杨佳深受感动。大家到此方才恍然大悟。可是，又一个意外横飞而来……