淫乱家教

　　1453年，东罗马帝国陷落后，地处中欧的神圣罗马帝国，不得不直接面对土耳其人的侵扰。土耳其人热衷扩张，虽然他们信奉伊斯兰教，但他们认为他们才是真正的“罗马皇帝”，神圣罗马帝国的皇位，已由哈布斯堡王朝掌权两百年，他们是基督教世界的最后保卫者，双方再维也纳一决高下：一方信誓旦旦，另一方誓死捍卫。

　　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.

本片改编自同名短篇科幻小说，讲述了某一天开始在世界道路上行驶的无数球的故事，以交通事故为界变得无缘无故被人讨厌的男人的悲剧，因为圆盘故障开始与住在附近的宇宙人的交流等。

　　在近未来的反乌托邦社会，电视真人秀《过关斩将》（The Running Man）以血腥的生存竞赛霸占收视榜首。参赛者被称为“跑者”（Runners），必须在职业杀手的追猎下存活30天，一举一动皆被实时直播给嗜血的公众观众；每多活一天，便能累积更高额奖金。　　工人阶级的本·理查兹（格伦·鲍威尔 饰）为拯救重病女儿孤注一掷，被节目魅力十足却冷酷无情的制作人丹·基利安（乔什·布洛林 饰）说服，以“最后希望”的身份踏入这场死亡游戏。　　然而，本的叛逆、求生本能与坚韧意志，竟让他意外成为全民追捧的偶像——同时也成了整个体制的致命威胁。 随着收视率飙升至巅峰，危险指数同步暴涨。本不仅要智胜步步紧逼的猎人，更需对抗整个国度对他“惨败”的疯狂期待。　　影片改编自史蒂芬·金的同名小说。