狼心不轨

　　年轻情侣波顿（Peter Horton 饰）和维姬（Linda Hamilton 饰）旅行路过内布拉斯加州盖特林镇，他们在公路上发现一具儿童尸体。为了报警，两人驱车驶入盖特林镇，却发现镇上的情况更为诡异蹊跷：这里似乎是儿童的王国，所有成人均不见踪影。孩子们全都听命于一个名叫艾塞克（John Franklin 约翰•法兰克林 饰）、自称上帝使者的小男孩。　　镇上的大人究竟哪里去了？孩子们充满恶意的眼神背后究竟隐藏着什么秘密？波顿和维姬最终能否活着走出小镇？　　本片荣获1984年布鲁塞尔国际奇幻电影节最佳奇幻电影奖。

　　2002年，伊拉克战争爆发前11个月，美军驻伊拉克某军事基地发生奇怪事件，一个监控摄像机录下了诡异影像，更有试图查清此事的相关责任人员或者丧命或者疯狂。军方甚感事关重大，遂请来在这方面具有丰富研究经验的“鬼语者”海莉·桑兹前来调查被他们用特殊手段囚禁起来的“鬼魂”。随着沟通的深入，各种各样奇怪的是接连发生，身边或严肃或鲁莽的军人们着呈现出怪异的举止。这一切的背后似乎隐藏着巨大的秘密，“鬼魂”的真面目也渐渐地揭开神秘面纱……　　本片根据真实事件改编。

在阿什莉提出离婚后，凯里向好友朱莉和保罗寻求慰藉，却发现这对表面幸福的夫妻实则奉行开放式婚姻。但当凯里逾越界限时，所有人的感情生活都陷入了混乱漩涡。

　　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.