姬械技师莉斯塔的大冒险

19 十九

等待方舟

　　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.

最后的日出

　　在未来，地球上所有的化石能源都被消耗殆尽，人类全面进入了太阳能时代。能源公司开始全面的开发和控制太阳，人类社会逐渐向完全依赖太阳能Ⅱ型文明迈进。　　但在一次人类科学无法探明的天体活动中，太阳突然消失了。整个世界陷入了黑暗的无政府状态，大面积抢夺生存资源的恶性事件在城市不断发生，富人乘坐宇宙飞船逃离到其他星球，普通人只能留在地球享受世界末日。社恐障碍的天文学自由撰稿人孙炀与素未谋面的废柴邻居陈暮被迫结伴共同踏上末日逃亡之旅，前往传说中人类最后的庇护之所——第四区。一路上他们与形形色色的人匆匆相遇，见到了最残酷的人性与最温情的告别。在无数次的死里逃生之后，两颗寂寞的心开始慢慢靠近，并在残酷的灾难面前逐渐发现了生命的意义……

马尔切洛·埃尔南德斯：美国男孩

　　Marcello Hernandez: American Boy. Only on Netflix January 7.

做个有钱人

　　Success in business, having a happy family, and being a rich one are what most people wish for. This is also the wish of the young man A-Hwa. Those who are hardworking, responsible and know how to be grateful will surely be rich and become wealthy.

猎战狂徒

　　故事围绕缉毒警察何光辰（郑楚一饰）追查“将军”贩毒集团展开。一群“鬼面”狂徒黑吃黑劫走毒品，而幕后主使竟是何光辰的警校挚友（邹兆龙饰），两人从并肩立誓到正邪对立，上演刺刀见红的生死博弈。剧情通过血腥动作场面和兄弟反目的人性挣扎，揭露黑恶势力真相，最终将罪恶绳之以法。