第27天生死劫

我很在乎

　　瑪拉（裴淳華 Rosamund Pike 飾）經營著一家監護人公司，她專門尋找身體情況欠佳同時又無依無靠的老年人下手，通過并不是那么合法的手段令自己成為他們的法定監護人，將他們送進療養院，之后便可接手和變賣他們的財產和房產，再將所得據為己有。　　某日，瑪拉將下一個“吞噬”的目標放在了一位名叫珍妮弗（黛安娜·維斯特 Dianne Wiest 飾）的老太太身上，經調查，珍妮弗沒有任何的親人，同時又擁有著價值不菲的遺產，簡直就是他們的最佳“肥羊”。在一番操作之后，珍妮弗被沒收手機關進了療養院，但此時的瑪拉和她的戀人兼合伙人弗蘭（艾莎·岡薩雷斯 Eiza González 飾）并不知道的是，她們惹上了一個不該惹，也不能惹的人。

等待方舟

　　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.

三個神探與喀爾巴阡之犬

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殘忍的心

　　一個年輕屌絲蓋伊跟一個女人上床，事后才發現這個女人已經結婚了，而且嫁給了臭名昭著的黑老大沃克，蓋伊擔心沃克會在某一時刻發現他的婚外情并殺了他，于是他主動向沃克承認錯誤，并祈求原諒...

花魁～SAGA

　　現代東京，三位女性——愛、瑪麗、杏珠——在繁忙與孤獨的?活中尋找愛與?我。某?，她們?同前往溫泉旅?，在閃爍的燈光與笑聲之間，?道神秘的閃光將她們帶入時空裂縫。當她們再次睜眼，眼前已成為?個充滿異?與絢爛的幻夢世界——「仮想?吉原」。在這座融合江?、?正與現代意象的花街中，她們分別化身為花魁「三浦太夫」、「薄桜」、「富?太夫」，成為欲望、權?與愛情交錯的舞臺中?。

戰爭藝術家

　　根據約瑟夫和麗貝卡·鮑在普拉佐集中營的婚禮被斯皮爾伯格的辛德勒名單紀念的真實故事改編。Bau，《戰爭中的藝術家》是一部戰爭劇/愛情故事/間諜故事，在這個幸存者正在死亡、大屠殺正在從記憶中消失的時代需要講述。約瑟夫在營地里運用他的藝術技巧，活了下來，幫助數百人逃走。奇跡般地，他在絕望中找到了愛。一種將持續一生的愛。幾年后，當他被傳喚為殘酷的納粹軍官受審的關鍵證人時，他被重新帶回了大屠殺的生動記憶中。納粹軍官折磨了他并殺害了他的父親。現在，他呼吁這種愛和精神的韌性來面對他過去的終極惡魔。