人間昆蟲記

 夏洛特（貝蒂·戴維斯 Bette Davis 飾）已經(jīng)能算得上是一個老姑娘了，她梳著呆板的發(fā)型，穿著保守的服裝，性格也古里古怪的，更糟糕的是，她似乎還染上了酗酒的壞毛病。在家人的建議之下，夏洛特決定踏上治療心靈的旅途，登上了駛往遠方的游輪。在游輪上，夏洛特邂逅了名為杰瑞（保羅·亨雷德 Paul Henreid 飾）的男子，并且在誤打誤撞之中和杰瑞的女兒結(jié)下了深厚的友誼。很快，夏洛特就感到自己墜入了情網(wǎng)之中，然而，此時的杰瑞并不是自由身，他有這一段無法結(jié)束的婚姻。心碎的夏洛特選擇了離開，而夏洛特的母親也在不久之后撒手人寰。

　　阿林（林海峰 飾）一直以來都夢想著能夠手執(zhí)教鞭站上講臺成為教書育人的老師。如今，他的理想終于成為了現(xiàn)實，可是直到此時，他才發(fā)現(xiàn)，現(xiàn)實是如此的枯燥和殘酷。阿林每日要面對的是調(diào)皮的學(xué)生和機械化的教學(xué)任務(wù)，沒過多久，阿林的熱忱和理想就完全的被磨滅了?！　“ⅫS（黃秋生 飾）是阿林的同事兼好友，身為單身爸爸的他和五歲的兒子過著相依為命的生活。某日，學(xué)校里新調(diào)來了漂亮開朗的李老師（徐子淇 飾），李老師的出現(xiàn)讓阿林和阿黃在蒼白的生活里看到了新的色彩。阿林和阿黃同時喜歡上了李老師，但得知了阿黃的心意，阿林決定默默的退出。

在外星人入侵幾乎滅絕人類的幾年后，人類難民在月球上的一個秘密基地，三個英雄決定跳入時間旅行，不顧一切地試圖拯救幸存者，但他們不知道哨兵正在等待他們。

　　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.