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困在時(shí)間里的父親

 影片以重復(fù)加碎片式的感官敘事手法，講述了年邁且身患疾病的安東尼（安東尼·霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 飾）正在面臨一項(xiàng)艱難的人生選擇——是搬到養(yǎng)老院還是接受女兒尋找的新護(hù)工。在這個(gè)過(guò)程中，安東尼發(fā)現(xiàn)自己仿佛進(jìn)入了一場(chǎng)奇怪的時(shí)空之旅，錯(cuò)亂的記憶和時(shí)間線交織出一段段匪夷所思的故事，而一個(gè)個(gè)陌生又熟悉的人也讓他陷入迷茫。影片根據(jù)法國(guó)小說(shuō)家兼劇作家佛羅萊恩·澤勒的舞臺(tái)劇《父親》改編。

平原上的迷途

　　卡洛比安奇和多里亞諾是兩個(gè)生活拮據(jù)的五十多歲男人，他們秉持著“絕不錯(cuò)過(guò)最后一杯酒”的人生哲學(xué)。在一次偶然的機(jī)會(huì)中，他們結(jié)識(shí)了朱利奧，一位性格內(nèi)向、對(duì)人生感到迷茫的建筑學(xué)學(xué)生。這場(chǎng)看似不經(jīng)意的邂逅，卻逐漸演變成了一場(chǎng)穿越威尼斯平原的混亂公路旅行。　　在旅途中，糟糕的建議、宿醉的困擾以及意料之外的友情，不斷挑戰(zhàn)朱利奧對(duì)人生和愛(ài)情的原有計(jì)劃。這場(chǎng)旅程不僅重新定義了他們彼此的生活，也讓朱利奧開(kāi)始重新思考自己的未來(lái)方向。

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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永恒站

　　影片構(gòu)建了一個(gè)妙趣橫生的死后世界觀：人離世后將抵達(dá)一個(gè)連接無(wú)數(shù)“永恒世界”的中轉(zhuǎn)站，一旦選擇就無(wú)法改變。故事始于賴瑞（邁爾斯·特勒 飾）被蝴蝶餅噎死的荒誕開(kāi)場(chǎng)，他在中轉(zhuǎn)站重獲青春，等待妻子瓊安（伊麗莎白·奧爾森 飾）的到來(lái)。然而瓊安到來(lái)后，卻面臨新的難題——她在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中陣亡的前夫盧克（卡勒姆·特納 飾），竟已在此苦候她67年。　　兩個(gè)男人為了獲得瓊安的最終選擇， 展開(kāi)了一系列令人捧腹的“競(jìng)爭(zhēng)”，各種啼笑皆非的較量讓本該嚴(yán)肅的永恒抉擇變成了一場(chǎng)妙趣橫生的“愛(ài)情競(jìng)賽”。面對(duì)車站里呈現(xiàn)的琳瑯滿目的人生可能，一邊是共同走過(guò)漫長(zhǎng)歲月、充滿柴米油鹽記憶的現(xiàn)任丈夫；一邊是曾令她刻骨銘心、苦候她67年的前度摯愛(ài)， 瓊安必須做出最終的選擇：與誰(shuí)攜手， 共赴永恒？