夢(mèng)犯

　　史蒂芬（瑞恩·菲利普）與莎倫（蕾切爾·李費(fèi)佛）來到波多黎各，打算接走通過中介收養(yǎng)的海地小女孩妮娜。他們?cè)诼灭^結(jié)識(shí)了穿著防風(fēng)衣，頭發(fā)亂糟糟的本杰明（庫薩克）。六萬元的費(fèi)用付出手，妮娜卻突然失蹤，領(lǐng)養(yǎng)中介的工作人員不翼而飛，網(wǎng)站也無法打開……　　當(dāng)?shù)鼐旄嬖V他們，兩人是中了釣魚詐騙的圈套，以收養(yǎng)孩子為誘餌，拿到收養(yǎng)費(fèi)后就把孩子帶走，再去尋找下一個(gè)受害人。然而夫婦倆的厄運(yùn)還沒完，本杰明似乎是看準(zhǔn)了兩人是條大魚，把他們監(jiān)禁起來，要榨光他們所有的積蓄。

　　絕望的母親艾麗西亞竭盡所能阻止其子丹尼爾因謀殺前妻未遂而被判入獄。在這一過程中，艾麗西亞將發(fā)現(xiàn)一樁陰謀，這將徹底改變她的生活，并將其變成一個(gè)真正的噩夢(mèng)。

　　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.

母親去世后，一對(duì)來自皇后區(qū)的泰裔美國兄妹在城市內(nèi)外艱難求生。他們各自以低調(diào)的方式哀悼。杰米在動(dòng)物園找到了一份新工作，而她的弟弟納林則繼續(xù)在附近的柔術(shù)館工作。杰米與一位約會(huì)對(duì)象發(fā)生了一次尷尬的互動(dòng)后，決定計(jì)劃一次說走就走的旅行，逃離這座城市。在旅途中以及返回紐約后，兄妹倆遭遇了一系列意想不到的事情。