欲望酒店 Hotel Desire (2011)

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　　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.

毛骨悚然撞鬼經(jīng) 25周年特別篇

119緊急呼叫2026 橫濱大停電

　　年末的橫濱消防通信指令中心異常繁忙，事故、疾病、火災(zāi)與各種糾紛不斷。此時，是否引入“AI指令員”取代人工的議題引發(fā)內(nèi)部對立。除夕夜突發(fā)大規(guī)模停電，全市混亂、報警激增，指令員們在極限狀態(tài)中持續(xù)接警與指揮救援。作品描繪他們直面困難時堅持工作的理由，以及“拯救他人”這一行為的真正意義。城市陷入黑暗，他們必須用僅存的“聲音”守護生命。

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　　如果靈魂離開了身軀，肉體還是正常活動，該怎么去解釋這種生命形態(tài)？余燕（陳郡君飾）早晨醒來便覺得身體有異常，先后與家人和男友許德（張立昂飾）發(fā)生爭執(zhí)，盛怒的余燕轉(zhuǎn)身離去，隨后發(fā)生車禍。經(jīng)醫(yī)生搶救逃過死劫，卻找不到心跳。此時她被劫走，醒來后身處在地下密室，研究失魂者的胡教授解釋余燕會失去魂魄，是因為內(nèi)心有強烈的負面磁場，一旦受到?jīng)_擊，靈魂就會脫離身體。余燕需要在72小時內(nèi)把自己的靈魂找回來，才能夠恢復(fù)正常。

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