性与爱的斗牛

　　Two sisters living separate lives on different continents are reunited on a Mediterranean Island. The two barely have time to bond and revive family ties as Kate, the elder, meets a group of locals and agrees to an exciting ride on a hot air balloon. But disaster strikes and as the result of a freak accident, the balloon is carried far out to sea. Their cell phones out of range, and the balloon running out of gas, Kate and her friends are battling for their lives. While, back on land, the younger sister, Liz, has become an unwanted "material witness" to a crime. Matters then take a dramatic twist, one that will mark their lives forever.

　　影片追随两位牛津大一新生，Miles（麦克斯·艾恩斯）以及Alistair（《饥饿游戏》男星山姆·克拉弗林），他们加入“骚乱俱乐部”（Riot Club）的过程和经历。根据电视特辑所说，骚乱俱乐部成员不到十人，都是精英中的精英，而要进入这个精英团体可不容易，随后的片段中，Alistair 就喝下了一杯，加了烟头、蠕虫等各种难以想象的恶心“佐料”的红酒。　　影片改编自2010年火爆伦敦的剧作“Posh”，骚乱俱乐部的原型据说是牛津大学著名的布灵顿俱乐部（Bullingdon Club），英国许多政要，包括首相卡梅伦，伦敦市长鲍里斯·约翰逊都是其中成员。其奢华的晚宴，以及狂暴的“入会仪式”，比如在学校餐厅和寝室“打砸抢”等，也同样出名。

　　50年代，美国拍了《原子怪兽》，日本拍了《哥斯拉》，50年代末期英国又趁热打铁拍了《海底巨兽》。1961年又和米高梅合拍了《巨兽格果》。　　《巨兽格果》不像其他怪兽电影那样，怪兽开头都是神龙见首不见尾，最后城市大战时露个全身。本片中怪兽破坏的镜头完完全全的展现在观众面前，拆了伦敦塔桥，还推到了大本钟。最后全凭两双大脚一路踩爆房屋，砖瓦四溅，相当过瘾。本片讲述了人类抓到了一只可爱的小怪兽——格果，然后把它关进马戏团里，哪知道后来把怪兽老娘惹来了…

　　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.