烂泥情人

19 十九

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.

水之年代

莉迪娅从小在父亲的暴力阴影下长大，游泳是她唯一的逃避方式。她凭借奖学金进入大学，却在成年后陷入毒瘾、混乱的性关系和失去孩子的痛苦中。她的人生如同水流，时而湍急、时而沉寂，无法掌控方向。在最深的低谷中，莉迪娅开始写作。文字成为她的呼吸，也成为她重新定义自己的方式。她不再只是受害者，而是讲述者，是创造者。通过回望过去，她一点点拼凑出破碎的自我，也在写作中找到了勇气。 　　影片改编自莉迪亚·尤克纳维奇所著回忆录。

猛虎末路

　　一辆德国虎式坦克的五名车组成员被派往战火纷飞的前线后方执行一项秘密任务。在德军亢奋药物的刺激下，他们的任务逐渐变成了一场深入黑暗之心的旅程。

奇幻西游：新世界

　　未来世界，科技与数据主宰一切，当旧城区变得又老又挤，以最新科技打造的新世界，成为人人向往的移居地，然而唯有贡献值最高的菁英，才有资格入住。八戒（许光汉 配音）又懒又自私当然失格，但他为了让奶奶（钟欣凌 配音）过好日子，决定违背良心，与建商总裁牛魔王（庹宗华 配音）私下交易……　　影片将《西游记》搬到科幻场景，八戒化身赛博胖客，与理工男三藏（刘冠廷 配音）、火爆护卫悟空（庾澄庆 配音）、女机器人小净（邵雨薇 配音），穿梭新旧混杂市景，探索幸福真谛。

德州棉花

　　一位年迈的老警察深信在他小镇上被捕的神秘陌生人是无辜的，进而展开的调查就像捅了马蜂窝一样，将永远改变这个镇子。

感染她嘴唇的欲望2025

本片改编自寄田みゆき创作的同名漫画。伊藤早奈是一个可爱的女高中生，生活充满了快乐，但从未体验过恋爱的感觉。因为车祸住院的早奈，在医院里被一个非常漂亮的女生吸引了。于是，一段青涩甜蜜的恋爱开始了！