激情家族

　　由一桩荒诞的“卫生巾杀人魔”案件展开，讲述了几个在日本的中国人，阴差阳错地卷入一场黑帮斗争，与日本毒枭斗智斗勇的故事。他们一个是帮派面临倒闭妄图自裁的帮派老大、一个是吊儿郎当的黑导游、 一个是残暴歹毒的黑帮毒枭、一个是唯利是图的歌舞伎町老板、一个是胸怀大志却碌碌无为的警 探，每个人为了达到目的经历了一番复杂而有趣的遭遇。　　主角刚正是一个在日本漂泊的“老炮儿”，亲手建立的帮派日益衰落，试图自裁却意外卷进命案，发现了惊人的秘密。对正义与规矩的坚守，使他选择与日本黑帮毒枭正面对决。

　　为了帮助好友文斯（斯蒂芬·格拉汉姆 Stephen Graham 饰）度过伤心的离婚，一群好友尼尔（丹尼·戴尔 Danny Dyer 饰）、科勒雷（比利·穆瑞 Billy Murray 饰）、米奇（洛尔·克拉克 Noel Clarke 饰）、马特（李·恩格里比 Lee Ingleby 饰）等人带着他前往一偏僻小镇度假。本以为去的是人间天堂，结果他们却发现这里根本就是地狱，因为这里的女人都染上了怪病，会像僵尸一样袭击、吃掉所有男人。尽管这些男人平时都是唯唯诺诺的“妻管严”，但是面对女僵尸他们绝不手软，于是一场好好的度假彻底沦为了爷们儿大战女僵尸的战争。

　　在饱受干旱困扰的小镇中，一个拉美裔家庭给他们唯一的儿子取名为“帆船”。帆船给他的家人带来了新的爱和希望。一天下午他带回了一把小吉他。从这一刻起，帆船和他的吉他形影不离。病重的祖母希望他为她写一首歌，帆船迎难而上，创作了有史以来最伟大的歌曲。

　　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.

　　19岁的少年赛斯·戴维斯（吉奥瓦尼·瑞比西 Giovanni Ribisi饰）一心希望能尽快淘到自己的第一桶金，好让父亲另眼相看。他本打算靠玩非法纸牌起家，却发现此路根本行不通，直到一家名为J.T.马林经纪公司的股票经纪商找上了赛维斯。　　在这个号称“锅炉房”的核心办公室里，多少个一夜间成为百万富翁的故事深深诱惑着赛维斯。很快，野心勃勃的赛维斯便以优异的成绩通过了股票经济人认证考试，开始了他的“成功之路”。他把那些永远都没有前途的股票卖给利欲熏心的投资者。赛维斯正以极危险的速度追逐着金钱与利益，靠近着他所谓的功成名就，贪婪而不安。在纽约长岛这个瞬息万变的商业圈里，良心未泯的赛维斯终于开始面对良心的考验。