食肉动物年

箱男

 这部1973年的小说由安部公房创作，讲述了一位无名男子放弃自己的身份，头顶一个大纸箱生活的故事。在东京街头游荡时，他遇到了各种各样的人物。

咸鱼翻生

　　侠盗“一枝花”专劫富济贫故为人钦佩，却因正义感得罪了一名蛇蝎美人，该女子名叫“仇女”虽嫁与一土豪“孤寒财主”为妾但始终不忘被“一枝花”所辱，誓必要将“一枝花”置于死地。“一枝花”浪迹江湖，但“仇女”并未因而放过他，反而更诬造许多盗窃案令官方大举追缉之。其时江湖上出现两个小人物，一肥一瘦，肥名“胀爆”为人憨直，因仰慕“一枝花”而喜扮大侠，瘦名“扭纹柴”常自作聪明经常撞板，喜占小便宜，为了官方之花红到处找寻“一枝花”，而偶遇上“胀爆”后来反成莫逆之交，两人更结伴一同寻找“一枝花”……

无论如何我爱你

 这部精美的动画短片由编剧/导演威尔·麦柯马克和迈克尔·戈维尔联手打造。在悲剧发生后，一对父母失去了孩子，伤心欲绝的他们要面对随之而来的失落感。

老板和小可爱

浪浪人生

　　曾经叱咤小镇的“大哥”黄荣发（黄渤 饰）如今嘴硬腿软，开启人生困难模式，但他和家人都没有被命运的风浪裹挟。儿子黑狗达（范丞丞 饰）看似是黄家唯一“淡人”，暗地却密谋如何发家又“治父”；妻子陈梨珍（殷桃 饰）样样全能横扫困难，是小镇人尽皆知不太好惹的“妈系超人”；胆大手“黑”的女儿黄娇娇（李嘉琦 饰）和“神”通广大的阿太（刘雪华 饰）也各出奇招笑料百出。逆境当前，一家唯有兴“疯”作浪跟生活贴脸硬刚，没准真能让他们绝地翻盘？

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.