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　　《比佛利拜金狗2》虽然不像首集一般安排上戏院放映，但製作规格各方面也都比照当初的电影，同样是运用电脑科技让狗狗们开口说话演戏。本片的故事内容则是接续原本的第一集最后，叙述终成眷属的吉娃娃伴侣 Papi 和 Chloe 如今共组家庭，但是他们的冒险可没有因此结束喔！没多久五隻小狗狗们 就报到了，Papi 和 Chloe 成天开始忙著应付这些小鬼头，防止他们闯祸，给人类主人以及邻居带来不必要的麻烦。而且他们的挑战还不仅於此，这次虽然没有翻山越岭，但即使在比佛利本地也会面临许多冒险，面对一隻娇娇狗的挑衅，吉娃娃们还必须登上狗狗名模伸展台，让比佛利狗狗时尚界大开眼界！

 1951年，英国乡村边缘，德卢斯家族的庄园已在岁月中斑驳颓败。11岁的弗拉维亚·德卢斯，是家族里最离经叛道的孩子——她痴迷化学，尤其精通毒药，更有着超越年龄的侦探天赋。当一具陌生尸体出现在庄园的庭院中，她的父亲哈维兰上校成了警方的头号嫌疑人。为了洗刷父亲的冤屈，弗拉维亚拿起放大镜与化学试剂，在老宅的藏书室、实验室与庄园的隐秘角落中展开调查。她周旋于警探、古怪的家族成员与小镇居民之间，在层层迷雾中探寻真相，而随着调查深入，她也逐渐揭开了家族隐藏多年的秘密。

　　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.

本片改编自同名小说。贝多芬（古田新太 饰），众人心中的孤高天才，原来竟是秘书一手捏造的“神话”？本片揭开历史迷雾，讲述一个粗俗邋遢的真实贝多芬，如何在忠实秘书辛德勒（山田裕贵 饰）的笔下，被改写成永垂不朽的圣人音乐家。