愛(ài)恨龍卷風(fēng)：撕裂的欲望

　　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.

 一位菲律賓祖母即將步入晚年，她放棄了自己的八十歲生日聚會(huì)，去召喚她早已去世的孫女的靈魂，試圖通過(guò)壓抑的記憶來(lái)彌補(bǔ)過(guò)去的過(guò)錯(cuò)。

　　故事描述萊恩（吉諾亞拿尼亞 飾）的妹妹在幾個(gè)月前失蹤了，他認(rèn)為她失蹤的原因是玩了網(wǎng)路上流傳的“電梯游戲”，傳說(shuō)只要照著特定步驟操作電梯，就可以前往另一個(gè)次元。為了找到妹妹，萊恩說(shuō)服他的朋友們一同進(jìn)行電梯游戲，此舉卻為他們招來(lái)無(wú)法挽回的后果……

　　阿克曼博士是當(dāng)?shù)匾凰髮W(xué)的生物老師，他在被不明飛行物追趕時(shí)遇到了意外的死亡。韋斯利，他的一個(gè)學(xué)生，在吸引女性方面有困難。這一切都發(fā)生了變化，當(dāng)Xenobia女士接管了阿克曼的課程，并說(shuō)服衛(wèi)斯理參加一些維生素研究，她和她的助理Drax正在進(jìn)行。突然，韋斯利變得很有魅力，盡管在興奮的時(shí)候，他的腦袋里長(zhǎng)出了肉質(zhì)的天線(xiàn)。他新發(fā)現(xiàn)的成功可能會(huì)疏遠(yuǎn)他真正關(guān)心的那個(gè)女孩(Leeanne)，而Xenobia的動(dòng)機(jī)可能與她不是這個(gè)地球的事實(shí)有關(guān)。