堕落的人妻

　　年轻漂亮的凯拉得了一种奇怪的疾病，她的皮肤开始老化，干裂和瓦解。当她发现她可以用别人的皮肤来替代自己的皮肤时，她必须做出选择，看着自己的躯体枯萎死亡，还是屈服于诱惑，不管代价如何。

　　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.

 一个摇滚乐队的鼓手（里兹·阿迈德）突然发现自己失聪，他的乐队搭档露（奥利维亚·库克）和他都很懊恼，但又不得不面对这残酷的现实。影片去年在多伦多电影节首映，作为导演处女作获得媒体好评。

　　1989年，位于宾夕法尼亚州的东部矿区麦诺斯维尔小镇，年仅6岁的小男孩马丁·布里斯托尔（蔡斯·佩哈切克 Chase Pechacek 饰）被人绑架。在此后的5年里，马丁身在何处？又经历了什么？无人知晓。　　1994年的一天，父母双亡的少女艾莉森·米勒（亚历珊德拉·达达里奥 Alexandra Daddario 饰）随叔叔乔纳森（迈克尔·比恩 Michael Biehn 饰）搬到麦诺斯维尔居住。这个出身大城市的女孩渐渐适应了这个偏远乡间的生活，也结识了帅气的男孩威廉（诺兰·吉拉德·范克 Nolan Gerard Funk 饰）。但是新生活的阳光很快退去，那幢废弃的农舍引起了艾莉森注意。她不知道，失踪已久的马丁也在黑暗中注视着他，这个男孩过早地见识了事件最为残酷与血腥的一面……