少女 Donselya (2024)

　　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.

　　一对兄弟姐妹在一家偏僻的汽车旅馆里度过了一个可怕的恶作剧之夜。

　　《东京少年》的姊妹篇，同样以“无法有结果的恋情”为主题。　　2008年的东京少女未步（夏帆 饰）的梦想是成为一名奇幻小说家，这天和母亲以及母亲的情人在餐厅用餐，对母亲准备再婚一事十分排斥的未步愤而离席。　　1912年，宫田时次郎（佐野和真 饰）再次被夏目漱石退稿，缺乏生活经验的他写作出来的小说缺乏打动人心的力量。他沮丧地拿着退稿离开出版社。　　突然发生地震，站立不稳的未步失手掉了手机，从楼梯坠入连接过去与未来的虫洞，被时次郎拾得。　　不可思议地，相隔几近一百年的两个人，由误会到了解，渐渐情愫暗生，彼此倾诉生活中遭遇的问题，还异时空约会。但是身处未来的未步总是知道历史的发生，而当她想改变时，却发现一切只是无能为力。但是即便不能改变命运，也仍有真爱留低。