风韵继母

　　死于东京皇家饭店电梯里的美国黑人青年被人发现后，警方展开调查，从死者遗物中，知晓其名叫焦尼，并推断其来日目的是为找寻生母。根据种种线索，警方来到某温泉，发现知情人已被杀害，但还是知晓了知名服装设计师八杉恭子（冈田茉莉子）当年曾与一美国黑人士兵在此同居之事，遂派警官栋居（松田优作）前去美国向纽约警察肖夫坦（乔治•肯尼迪）求证。　　求证过程中，栋居陷入历史记忆与民族情结中，几欲将眼前的美国人尤其肖夫坦与当年在日本犯下罪行的刽子手混为一谈，但终回复理智完成了任务，将八杉恭子圈定为凶手，而八杉恭子不过也是历史的受害者。

　　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.

在一次武装袭击失败后，海伦抛弃了她的同伴，逃进了森林，并遇到了凯瑟琳，一个神秘的另一个自我，一个充满野性且极具诱惑的分身。这个分身将带她来到一个奇幻的山谷，在那里，变形、邪恶的力量以及巨大的动荡很快就会打破原有的秩序。海伦将不得不重新审视自己的选择，以及那些限制着这些选择的道德、政治和人性方面的两难困境。

　　故事发生在1990年，美国一名汽车修理工约翰·格雷（大卫·丹席克 David Dencik 饰）因涉嫌猥亵自己的女儿安吉拉（艾玛·沃森 Emma Watson 饰）而遭到逮捕。负责调查此案的警官布鲁斯·肯纳（伊桑·霍克 Ethan Hawke 饰）对约翰展开问询，而在这一过程中约翰起先承认罪行，随后又突然失忆。为了应对这一突发状况，心理学教授肯尼斯·睿恩斯博士（大卫·休里斯 David Thewlis 饰）也介入调查之中。他们发现，约翰信奉崇拜魔鬼撒旦的黑宗教，甚至布鲁斯的搭档都有可能参与其中。布鲁斯和肯尼斯想方设法要打开嫌疑人和受害者的记忆闸门，让他们想起最不堪回首的一段往事……　　本片根据真实事件改编。