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　　麥可(狄恩肯恩飾)在路上搭載了年輕性感的正妹(克莉絲汀波森飾)，麥可原先認為漫漫公路有正妹相伴艷福不淺，自以為遇上了豔遇的他，卻不知道自己即將陷入一連串的陰謀及殺機，一趟沒有終點的旅程即將展開…　　故事描述一個男人在路途中載了一位年輕的女人，原來只是好心借人搭便車，結(jié)果男主人公卻發(fā)現(xiàn)自己陷入了一場可怕的午夜夢魘……　　If she looks too good to be true, then she absolutely is. Just ask Michael Anderson (Dean Cain), a gullible film editor who picks up a sexy young hitchhiker (Christie Burson) in the Arizona desert. After the most thrilling one night stand of his life, Michael becomes embroiled in a twisted love con involving a sadistic crime boss (Michael Madsen), a lonely henchman, and a thieving bank manager. Trust isn't just a bitch, it's a dirty little trick!　　A crime bosss money is missing and he wants it back by any ay means. The beautiful hitchhiker has it and wants to make the getaway.　　Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin is the scientist behind more than 200 psychedelic compounds - including MDMA, more commonly known as Ecstasy. Considered to be one of the greatest chemists of the 20th century, Sasha's vast array of discoveries have had a profound impact in the field of psychedelic research, making him a subject of fascination and controversy among fellow scientists and a folk hero to recreational users of psychedelics. Dirty Pictures uncovers the lifework of Dr. Shulgin and takes  viewers inside his Northern California home where he lives with his wife of 40 years and continues to carry out experiments in a makeshift laboratory. Director étienne Sauret likewise delves into the broader world of psychedelic research - where the fields of chemistry, neuroscience and philosophy intersect - and investigates whether or not this particular field could aid in solving the deepest mysteries of the human mind.

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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.

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她離開丈夫與兒子，也離開穩(wěn)定的律師工作，在泳池、露天咖啡廳與私人公寓自在游走。以寫作寄托生活，對兒子的愛未減半分，與丈夫也親如摯友，直到那日，她向丈夫吐露與女性的親密關(guān)系，完美生活旋即化為一場幻夢。在失去監(jiān)護權(quán)后，她不得不在機構(gòu)間穿梭，為了見兒子一面奮力一搏，卻不知這樣的困境，何時能走到盡頭？