漂亮的妹妹

　　某年圣誕節(jié)期間，位于一個(gè)僻靜舒適角落的格蘭達(dá)爾森林旅館正式開(kāi)業(yè)。美麗的女店主阿哈娜（碧帕莎·芭素 Bipasha Basu 飾）為了這一天可謂煞費(fèi)苦心，她以一己之力安排旅館內(nèi)的一切事務(wù)，與此同時(shí)第一批客人也接二連三入住。雖然狀況不斷，不過(guò)旅館的開(kāi)業(yè)儀式總算順利進(jìn)行了下來(lái)，而且她還因誤會(huì)結(jié)識(shí)了擁有迷人氣質(zhì)的客人庫(kù)納爾·阿南德（Imran Abbas 飾）。然而在前一晚，給旅店送貨的司機(jī)遭到不明生物的襲擊，死狀可怖。次日，一對(duì)新婚燕爾的夫妻也在叢林中遇襲?！　】植赖乃劳鰵夥昭杆俾?，阿哈娜好不容易建立起來(lái)的夢(mèng)想旅館，面臨怪物的無(wú)情毀滅……

　　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.

　　朱莉在巴黎一家豪華酒店打工，工作非常辛苦，還要努力照顧在鄉(xiāng)下的兩個(gè)孩子。后來(lái)，她得到了一個(gè)期待已久的工作面試機(jī)會(huì)，但一場(chǎng)全國(guó)性的罷工爆發(fā)了，導(dǎo)致公共交通系統(tǒng)陷入癱瘓。一直以來(lái)，朱莉努力在生活中維系著一種平衡，而這種脆弱的平衡被突發(fā)事件所打破。為了得償所愿，她冒著隨時(shí)都會(huì)碰壁乃至失去一切的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)，開(kāi)始了一場(chǎng)與時(shí)間的瘋狂賽跑。

 這部在歌舞片發(fā)展早期拍攝的影片，堪稱是當(dāng)時(shí)最為奢華的好萊塢巨制。影片由后來(lái)被譽(yù)為“爵士之王”的保羅·懷特曼領(lǐng)銜主演，還請(qǐng)到了一眾歌舞名手。片中的內(nèi)容取自百老匯的經(jīng)典演出，通過(guò)名家和管弦樂(lè)隊(duì)的出色演繹，為觀眾感受爵士年代風(fēng)情提供了一次珍貴的機(jī)會(huì)。影片在當(dāng)年獲得了奧斯卡最佳藝術(shù)指導(dǎo)獎(jiǎng)。2013年，它還被美國(guó)國(guó)會(huì)圖書館列入國(guó)家電影目錄。