VN.089 M梦baby

　　Mini Mo（郑秀文饰）遭受失恋的打击后，饮食失去控制后体重升至260磅，窈窕身材不再。她与初恋情人黑川约定在十年后的日本相见，但旧貌不再的她深感自卑。偶然相识了跟她同样体型极胖的肥佬（刘德华饰），肥佬非常同情她，决定要帮她重塑魔鬼身材。肥佬以地狱式减肥方法锻炼Mini，为了让她减肥成功，得到更多的金钱让她上专业美容院减肥，肥佬不惜在街头被拳击换取酬劳。令Mini感动不已。　　Mini恢复原貌前去赴约，黑川向她提出求婚，可是她心中仍念念不忘为她默默付出的肥佬，盼望跟他重逢的一天。

　　20世纪40年代，美国某个依靠石油而发展起来的小镇。当地最大富豪彻斯特·康维（Ned Beatty 饰）的儿子艾尔姆（Jay R. Ferguson 饰）即将成婚，然而却有件事让彻斯特颇感烦恼。原来艾尔姆此前和妓女乔伊丝·雷克兰德（杰西卡•阿尔芭 Jessica Alba 饰）有染，为避免尴尬之事发生，彻斯特暗中授意警方驱逐乔伊丝，而小警察卢·福特（卡西·阿弗莱克 Casey Affleck 饰）成为了此项工作的具体执行者。卢表面内向顺从，内心却隐藏着不为人知的秘密。短短几周的相处，乔伊丝已然对他深深迷恋，不可自拔。谁知在最后关头，卢却对乔伊丝和艾尔姆痛下杀手，从此跌入万劫不复的黑色深渊中……　　本片根据吉姆·汤普森（Jim Thompson）的同名小说改编。

　　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.

杰弗里（凯尔·麦克拉克伦 Kyle MacLachlan 饰）为了照料父亲而回到了久违的家乡小镇，哪知道在误打误撞之中令一场凶杀案件浮出水面，杰弗里就此结识了负责调查此案的警察威廉斯（乔治·迪克森 George Dickerson 饰），以及他的女儿桑迪（劳拉·邓恩 Laura Dern 饰）。桑迪告诉杰弗里，时间的真相或许和一个名叫多萝西（伊莎贝拉·罗西里尼 Isabella Rossellini 饰）的歌女有关。　　美丽神秘的多萝西很快就令杰弗里失去了理智，他偷偷的潜入了多萝西家中，恰巧发现了多萝西正在被一个名为弗兰克（丹尼斯·霍珀 Dennis Hopper 饰）的黑帮大佬虐待的事实。此时的杰弗里才开始意识到，在自己的视线范围之外，发生着很多黑暗而又罪恶的可怕之事。