辣手俏玫瑰

這是一部只有背景音樂(lè)寫(xiě)實(shí)的粗獷毫不妥協(xié)且極具風(fēng)格的獨(dú)立無(wú)聲藝術(shù)電影，描述在美國(guó)式的自由民主制度下所誕生的黑社會(huì)陰暗面、地痞流氓、吸食毒品、色情、謀殺、販賣(mài)軍火等，改編自古希臘荷馬史詩(shī)中的人物故事。

　　每個(gè)火車(chē)司機(jī)在職業(yè)生涯中會(huì)撞死20多人，這些死者通常是因?yàn)閷に?、失誤、酒醉或僅僅是一不小心而喪生。伊利亞是一名即將退休的火車(chē)司機(jī)，他共撞死了28人。他19歲的養(yǎng)子西瑪繼承了他的工作，西瑪非常擔(dān)心自己也會(huì)撞死人，而老司機(jī)們都安慰他說(shuō)，一周內(nèi)就會(huì)發(fā)生，但是幾周過(guò)去后，沒(méi)有發(fā)生一起撞人事故，而這也使得他精神極度緊繃。伊利亞為了幫助他，找到了許多想要自殺的人，讓他們跳到車(chē)軌上自殺，但是最終這些人都放棄了自殺的念頭。無(wú)奈之下，伊利亞自己躺在了車(chē)軌上想用自身的死來(lái)拯救西瑪…

一名19歲的罪犯湯米（Tommy）被一對(duì)功能失調(diào)的夫婦克里斯（Chris）和凱瑟琳（Kathryn）綁架，并被迫接受他們的“改造計(jì)劃”，試圖將他塑造成一個(gè)“好男孩”。湯米必須設(shè)法逃脫。

　　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.