百惠之唇:愛獸

　　20世紀80年代初，站街流鶯辛蒂（瓦妮莎·哈金斯 Vanessa Hudgens 飾）險些遭人殺害。與此同時，在阿拉斯加一處荒涼所在，一名女性尸體被人發(fā)現(xiàn)。警官杰克·海爾康伯（尼古拉斯·凱奇 Nicolas Cage 飾）從辛蒂處了解到，兇手手段殘暴無情，并且可能是個連環(huán)殺手。由于背負著不堪回首的過去，杰克一方面決定保護這個僥幸從死神手中逃脫的女孩，另一方面將目標鎖定在曾在70年代有過前科的男子羅伯特·漢森（約翰·庫薩克 John Cusack 飾）身上。羅伯特道貌岸然，不動聲色繼續(xù)著他的獵殺活動，當他意外再度出現(xiàn)在辛蒂面前時，正邪雙方的對決即將到了關(guān)鍵時刻……　　本片根據(jù)真實事件改編。

　　弱不禁風的男子Colin（哈利·米爾林 Harry Melling 飾）遇上英俊無比的摩托車俱樂部首領Ray（亞歷山大·斯卡斯加德 Alexander Skarsg?rd 飾），Ray將Colin收為他的submissive，并帶他走近一群古怪的酷兒摩托車手，過程中各種收割童貞。但隨著Colin深入Ray的那個充滿規(guī)則和神秘的世界，他開始質(zhì)疑自己是否真正適合這種當全天候submissive的生活。他是真的找到了自己的使命，還是僅僅用一種“窒息”的人生換了另一種？

　　在未來，地球上所有的化石能源都被消耗殆盡，人類全面進入了太陽能時代。能源公司開始全面的開發(fā)和控制太陽，人類社會逐漸向完全依賴太陽能Ⅱ型文明邁進。　　但在一次人類科學無法探明的天體活動中，太陽突然消失了。整個世界陷入了黑暗的無政府狀態(tài)，大面積搶奪生存資源的惡性事件在城市不斷發(fā)生，富人乘坐宇宙飛船逃離到其他星球，普通人只能留在地球享受世界末日。社恐障礙的天文學自由撰稿人孫煬與素未謀面的廢柴鄰居陳暮被迫結(jié)伴共同踏上末日逃亡之旅，前往傳說中人類最后的庇護之所——第四區(qū)。一路上他們與形形色色的人匆匆相遇，見到了最殘酷的人性與最溫情的告別。在無數(shù)次的死里逃生之后，兩顆寂寞的心開始慢慢靠近，并在殘酷的災難面前逐漸發(fā)現(xiàn)了生命的意義……

　　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.