Ymode DX vol.43 星那美月

黑仙女

　　在完全印度文化的背景下，女主安努舒卡·莎玛试过了杀人的公路惊悚片和与鬼魂相关的喜剧片后，在她制片的第三部作品中讲了一个西方恶魔的故事。　　从宗教势力的追捕中侥幸逃生的恶魔之女，在母亲的保护下，在山林中活到二十几岁。母亲去世后，女孩走进城市，被善良内向的男人收留。　　这是一个异类不惜付出一切渴望融入人类生活，渴望爱情的故事。联想到所有宗教都奉行的五花八门的女性禁忌，联想到女孩的母亲是因为被强迫才怀上了她，不禁感叹:也许所有女人都是主流社会眼中的恶魔。因为爱，女人能拥有摧毁一切的力量;因为爱，女人能放下一切仇恨;因为爱，女人能牺牲一切，包括自己。世界就是被这样的恶魔支撑着的。想尽办法把她们赶尽杀绝的人，和她们自己，谁是真正的恶魔?作为低成本独立制片的恐怖电影，声效化妆场景什么的，都没什么毛病，都在及格线以上。不过如果不像我一样对故事这么煽情，观众应该会觉得故事太单薄，不够刺激。一些观众群体可能会觉得不太舒服。毕竟在这部电影中，心中有爱的恶魔之女不是真的恶魔，那些站在正义一方的驱魔人才是。

大明嫔妃之攻心

　　张清远死后兰心终日郁郁寡欢，太子误以为她还深爱张清远，嫉妒不已，故意亲近其她妃子来刺激和报复兰心。兰心本已对太子暗生情愫，见状却只能伤怀。 姚芊芊明白了四面楚歌的危险，为保腹中孩子，她四处笼络人心，颇见成效。 王恭妃查出了兰心和张清远的私情，盛怒之下将兰心打入冷宫。太子偷偷潜入冷宫和兰心相见，两人终于明白了对方的深情，情动之下有了一夜温存…… 后来，兰心被诊出怀有身孕，王恭妃却根本不相信这个孩子是太子的……

清算

　　黄浦江畔，杀机四伏，规则是否能由“她”重写？刀光里是黑帮的血腥，阴影下是性别枷锁的崩裂——多年银幕未见之大女主暴力爽片。　　卧龙帮少主武青青，家族遭戮，自身遭叛，从猎物化身猎手；她隐于暗处，每一张笑脸背后，都可能藏着致命的匕首，日本商会登堂入室，内鬼隐匿于至亲之间，无间道中再掀无间，信任是奢侈品，每一步都是悬崖！她将如何撕下那一张张虚伪面具？奸，是叛帮之徒，是入侵之敌，还是枕边之人？　　风暴已至，“除奸”成为唯一信条……

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.

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