靓汤

　　1997年，亚洲金融危机如同暴风雨一般席卷各国，公司倒闭已成寻常，老板富贾逃亡自杀，普通民众的生活愈加困苦。富家女孩布姆（Thunyaphat Pattarateerachaicharoen 饰）父亲所盖的大楼最终烂尾，遭到父亲家暴后，万念俱灰的布姆和伊布（Panisara Rikulsurakan 饰）相约自杀。阴差阳错，贝尔去往另一个世界，布姆则苟活人间。　　时光流转，20年后的布姆（楠迪·宗拉维蒙 Namthip Jongrachatawiboon 饰）已成为小有名气的房地产企业家。某天，她带着女儿贝尔（安比查雅•松可寒 Apichaya Thongkham 饰）再次来到当年和朋友自杀的烂尾楼。顽皮的贝尔四处游荡，捡到了母亲当初和伊布沟通的BP机。殊不知，一个孤独的灵魂已在此等候多年，只为了践行未完的承诺……

　　导演崔东勋的最新“群星阵容”外星人题材科幻大片将于2020年初开机。此前因为确诊鼻咽癌而错过与之合作的金宇彬有望通过该片回归影坛，同时加盟的演员还有柳俊烈和金泰梨。　　崔东勋导演的这部科幻新作会有外星人登场，将是一部“讲述2019年在韩国生活的外星人 的故事”。据称该片可能会同时拍摄1、2部，最近第一部的剧本初稿已经完成，目前正在创作第二部剧本。

　　超人狗最初是一条在警队服役的普通小猎犬，因为执行任务时的一次严重失误，被革职。流落街头的小猎犬被捉到一个动物研究所，邪恶的西蒙（彼德•定克拉吉 饰）博士在那里对流浪狗进行试验，希望能创造出一条超人狗。　　小猎犬大闹实验室，阴差阳错成了超人狗，并逃了出去。研究所的一个保安在下班的时候遇见超人狗，并把它带回家，希望借此改善和儿子的关系。　　在家里，超人狗发现自己不但力量强大、速度惊人，而且还能说话和飞翔。在保安之子的鼓励下，超人狗决定用自己的力量服务社会，与此同时，邪恶的西蒙博士则在琢磨怎么夺回超人狗，还计划着一个阴险的阴谋……

　　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.