嘶嘶秘事 (2023)

　　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.

小說家李唐（張本煜 飾）接到昔日戀人高麗（王佳佳 飾）的電話，被告知她要來他所在的城市出差三天。在這三天里，他們一起回到了過去，體驗了當下，演繹了未來。在他們即將告別時，高麗帶著李唐來到玄武湖，她講述起一件往事，李唐對此錯愕無言，恍然間不知當下是何時……

　　布雷克（克里斯托弗·阿波特 Christopher Abbott 飾）是一名住在舊金山的丈夫和父親。當他自己的父親失蹤并被判定死亡之后，他繼承了他位于俄勒岡州鄉(xiāng)下偏遠地區(qū)的童年老家。當他和他事業(yè)有成的女強人妻子夏莉特（朱莉婭·加納 Julia Garner 飾）的婚姻逐漸走向破裂，布雷克就說服夏莉特帶著他們年幼的女兒金潔（瑪蒂爾達·弗 思 Matilda Firth 飾）一起離開城市，前往他的童年老家度假。　　但是當這一家人在深夜來到這座農舍時，他們突然遭到一只看不見的怪獸攻擊，為了逃離危險，他們就躲進農舍里面，并且將所有入口封住，而那只怪獸則在外面徘徊。當他們驚懼地試圖度過漫漫長夜時，布雷克卻開始出現奇怪的舉動，而且逐漸變成一種不知名的怪物，于是夏莉特就被迫必須決定：到底是屋內的恐怖更致命，還是外面的危險更可怕？

未來世界，在一艘名為“蒼穹號”的飛船上，船長梁承天帶領著船員們經常在星際之間從事采集礦物質的買賣，以此來獲得巨大的經濟利益。雖然他們在多次采集過程中偶爾會遇到危險，但最終也都能安全返航。                                                                      　　直到這次，梁承天帶著船員們在銀河系中，意外找到一顆六千萬年前爆炸的超新星，他們在附近采集到了稀有的礦物質，從而能獲得巨額利益?？梢蚶娣峙洳痪鲬研氖碌拇瑔T們就此踏上返航之旅。                                                                      　　在返航途中“蒼穹號”意外接到了一組未知的求救訊號。他們成功救下了“創(chuàng)世紀號”的生物學家林修遠和他的妻子Angel，而梁承天在救援的過程中也意外受傷。