一夜換身

　　故事發(fā)生在車水馬龍的繁華大都市紐約，嘉德（英格麗德·波爾索·貝達(dá)爾 Ingrid Bols? Berdal 飾）是一名職業(yè)模特，擁有性感的身材和天使般的容貌，活躍在時(shí)尚秀場和雜志的封面之上。瑪利亞（卡嘉·瑞曼 Katja Riemann 飾）性格溫柔又賢惠，獨(dú)自撫養(yǎng)著孩子，是一位堅(jiān)強(qiáng)而又樂觀的單身母親。這看似八竿子打不到一起的兩人，她們的生命卻因?yàn)橐粋€(gè)名叫尼克（哈魯克·比爾吉納 Haluk Bilginer 飾）的男人而被牢牢的拴在了一起，她們都曾瞎了眼和尼克有過一段失敗的婚姻，而根據(jù)婚前協(xié)議，兩人都被尼克安置到了位于曼哈頓的豪華頂層公寓之中?！　蓚€(gè)性格迥異的女人之間，戰(zhàn)爭一觸即發(fā)。

　　喪尸危機(jī)爆發(fā)后，一家人躲到一處偏僻的農(nóng)場。然而，當(dāng)他們在這個(gè)荒涼的世界求生時(shí)，隱藏多年的痛苦秘密給這家人造成了巨大陰影。

　　毎年夏と冬に怪獣映畫を公開する東寶との直接対決を避けて春休みに公開することになった“ガメラ“シリーズ。富士火山帯の活動で出現(xiàn)したギャオスは、名古屋を火の海にするが、炎を好むガメラが現(xiàn)れ、陸?海?空を舞臺に死闘が展開される。

　　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.