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莎拉的石油

　　一个出生在印第安区的黑人女孩意外继承了一片充满石油的土地，汹涌的黑金下，她将面对攫取、迫害、偏见、中伤，并用她的意外横财去帮助他人。

正人君子2024

达到合格率99%，顾客满意度100%的自荐书代笔人宝允，声名大噪的她本人却在为公务员考试而烦恼，在超市打工的她每天都过得非常不如意。为了就业被意想不到的事件所纠缠。宝允的人生渐渐陷入无法控制的困境

东北奇妙故事

哲学系学生肖墨到殡仪馆实习，试图探寻“生死”答案，却遭遇导师陈辉离奇死亡。村里流传一口“应声井”可让人起死回生。陈辉之子死于事故后，陈辉在古井许愿，次日离奇失踪。肖墨随神秘殡葬师老白头返村调查，老白头以科学逐一破解“灵异”现象：井中尸体、养女上吊、浓雾里的鬼打墙等怪事背后皆是精心布局的骗局。当执念遭遇科学，谎言被真相撕裂，众人方知真正的深渊不在井里，而在人心。

尼可曼斯

　　莫妮卡·贝鲁奇加盟科幻恐怖片[尼可曼斯](Nekromancer，暂译)。影片由澳大利亚导演凯·瑞奇-特纳及凯兄弟两人执导。影片卡司还包括本·奥图尔([底特律])、泰丝·哈乌布里奇([机器之血])。该片由eOne联合Screen Australia、 Create NSW投资制作。影片今年于悉尼开拍，剧情未知。

二十五世纪宇宙战争

午夜的太阳

该片翻拍自2006年上映的同名日本电影，讲述罹患罕见疾病——XP色素性干皮症的女主因为皮肤不能接受阳光照射，否则将出现生命危险。从此白天与之无缘，只能终日躲在家中，唯一的乐趣也只是趁着夜晚踱到车站广场唱着自己喜爱的歌。在这一过程中，女主渐渐喜欢上时常路过车站的冲浪男孩的爱情故事。

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.