迷宫：秘密爱

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　　Al（提姆·麦锡森 Tim Matheson 饰）是个十分被看好的州长候选人，很怕因为他的笨蛋老弟Mike（克里斯·法雷 Chris Farley 饰）蒙羞，于是雇了Steve（大卫·斯佩德 David Spade 饰）来看管Mike以免他出什么乱子，从这一刻起就状况百出、 笑料不断。　　全片就像是一个喜剧大杂烩，让您捧腹大笑，跌破眼镜。

　　胡家庄年味渐淡，寒暑异常，舞狮少年罗川跳脱飞扬，异想天开，梦想把舞狮技艺发扬光大，却常常弄巧成拙，所到之处鸡飞狗跳，被村民视为“扫把星”，是村长胡长礼眼中的“危险分子”。年兽小五意外降临人间，大闹村庄，勾走了传家宝——狮头。罗川为找回狮头，和下凡捉年兽的鼠仙阿细相识，两人逐渐发现年兽并不可怕，可以和人类做朋友，但胡长礼爱村心切，被噬灵妖蛊惑，遁入疯魔，制造了一场针对年兽的阴谋，最终罗川和阿细联合村民，打败了噬灵妖，唤醒了胡长礼，胡家庄重归热闹，众人欢欢喜喜迎接春节到来。

　　父亲的突然去世让汤米（安东·尤金 Anton Yelchin 饰）一家人陷入了混乱，家庭无人照料一片狼藉，母亲终日哭泣郁郁寡欢，就在这样一种糟糕的情况下，汤米迎来了自己躁动又不安的青春，无处发泄的他只能通过调皮捣蛋来纾解心中的积怨。辍学后的汤米在一家熟食店打工，负责送货。　　汤米和朋友帕鲁帕斯（罗宾·威廉斯 Robin Williams 饰）成天厮混在一起，帕鲁帕斯是一个外表成熟但心智幼稚的“大龄儿童”，两人之间的感情真挚又深厚。一次意外中，汤米结识了妓女蕾蒂（Erykah Badu 饰），后者带领他进入了成年人的世界，享受了爱情的甜蜜与苦涩。一场意外的发生摧毁了汤米自由的生活，它不仅终结了汤米的现在，也波及到了他的未来。

　　Nearly murdered as a child by her mother, a woman (Katrina Law) returns to the house where her mom went mad.

　　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.