农夫偷香记

　　故事主角是失去五岁女儿芽衣的铃木佳惠（长泽雅美）和丈夫忠彦（濑户康史）。沉浸在悲伤中的佳惠，在古董市场找到一个与芽衣非常相似的可爱洋娃娃，并开始呵护它，逐渐恢复了活力。但是，佳惠和忠彦有了新的女儿真衣之后，两人就不再关注这个洋娃娃了。渐渐地，五岁大的真衣开始和洋娃娃玩耍，这个家庭接二连三地发生奇怪的事情。佳惠他们试图摆脱这个洋娃娃，但无论扔掉还是供奉，这个洋娃娃却莫名其妙地回来了！洋娃娃隐藏的秘密是什么？以及即将揭开的震撼真相是什么——！

　　一次演奏会上，小提琴家瑞安（莱斯利•尼尔森 Leslie Nielsen 饰）邂逅了美艳妇人劳伦（凯丽•勒布克 Kelly LeBrock 饰），劳伦对他大抛媚眼，吓得瑞安不知所措。联合国秘书长罗伯特将到哥伦比亚作反恐演讲，劳伦的丈夫希宾负责安排一切。这天瑞安收到了劳伦的邀请，并注明如果他不前来她将自杀。揣揣不安的瑞安如约来到了劳伦的别墅，却发现希宾早已倒地身亡。突然，一名独眼独臂独腿的男人出现将瑞安击晕了。　　当瑞安醒来后，他已被警察抓了起来，荒谬的是，瑞安谋杀希宾的罪名成立了。尽管他一再分辩，但他还是被押往监狱。途中囚车意外翻下了山崖，大难不死的瑞安开始了亡命天涯，他一方面要逃避追捕，一方面要设法找证据还自己一个清白！

　　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.

　　Star QB Drayton and dancer Dallas face relationship challenges amid his recovery from a setback and her doubts about her future. Their bond strains as they deal with distance and personal changes.