薔薇之戀

 預(yù)科學(xué)校巴頓學(xué)院的老師保羅（保羅·吉亞瑪提 飾）不太受歡迎，不管是學(xué)生、老師還是校長，都不太喜歡他，他們覺得他浮夸又僵化。在1970年的圣誕假期，保羅留在了學(xué)校監(jiān)督無法回家的學(xué)生。幾天后，只有一個(gè)學(xué)生留了下來——一個(gè)名叫安格斯的15歲搗蛋鬼，他是一個(gè)被不良行為破壞的好學(xué)生，總是在被開除的邊緣試探。與保羅和安格斯一起留下的還有學(xué)校廚師長瑪麗，一個(gè)為特權(quán)階層的兒子們提供服務(wù)的非裔美國婦女，她自己的兒子最近在越南失蹤了。這三個(gè)截然不同的失意者組成了一個(gè)奇怪的圣誕家庭，在新英格蘭大雪紛飛的兩個(gè)星期里，分享著不幸經(jīng)歷，并意識(shí)到他們中沒有人感謝自己的過去。

　　克和茱莉婭因?yàn)閿z影在網(wǎng)上相識(shí)，兩人分享彼此的攝影作品，并且嘗試在網(wǎng)上交往。在朋友的慫恿下，尼克主動(dòng)約茱莉婭見面，試圖開始真正交往，不料見面后才發(fā)現(xiàn)，網(wǎng)上的茱莉婭竟然是自己的前妻，因?yàn)槭聵I(yè)觀不合在幾年前離婚了。簡單交談了幾句后兩人為對(duì)方安排了一場約會(huì)，但都因?yàn)樾愿裨驅(qū)е录s會(huì)無疾而終，實(shí)則是因?yàn)楸舜藢?duì)對(duì)方還都保留著好感。尼克邀請(qǐng)茱莉婭參加朋友家舉辦的晚會(huì)，朋友們都認(rèn)為他們非常般配，他們也有意重新開始。在這關(guān)鍵時(shí)刻，茱莉婭的前男友出現(xiàn)，試圖挽回茱莉婭，而尼克的前女友也又一次聯(lián)系了尼克，他們礙于面子，將復(fù)合的事情擱淺在一旁。茱莉婭和尼克各自與前任相處了一段時(shí)間后發(fā)現(xiàn)還是忘不了對(duì)方，在情人節(jié)的晚上，他們終于放下心結(jié)，重新走到一起。

　　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.

　　未來，人們對(duì)資源的需求越來越大，可是地球上的資源已經(jīng)不能再滿足人類。于是地球上爆發(fā)了資源危機(jī)，并險(xiǎn)些引發(fā)戰(zhàn)爭。唯一能阻止戰(zhàn)爭的只有空間站上的粒子加速器，如果實(shí)驗(yàn)成功，粒子加速器成功運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)，那么它就能讓人們用上源源不斷的資源。可是在一次粒子加速器意外事件后，地球整個(gè)消失了，空間站上的宇航員開始試圖弄清楚在他們身上發(fā)生了什么。但隨著事情的一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)深入，真相慢慢浮現(xiàn)，更奇怪的事情也隨之出現(xiàn)。