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別名: 一開始,一切都很好 / At the Beginning, It"s All Good
別名: 一開始,一切都很好 / At the Beginning, It"s All Good
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.
一對夫婦在被暴徒控制的中西部地帶,只有通過與之斗爭才能回家的故事,影片將于6月29日北美上映。
任慕英(梁家輝 飾)是一個單親爸爸,以教授鋼琴來撫養女兒Ellen(蔡卓妍 飾)長大。可是女兒升上Band 5后就變得越來越不聽話,令任慕英十分擔心。Ellen一直覺得爸爸十分“娘娘腔”,覺得自己就算有什么麻煩,爸爸也是不可靠的人。Ellen的同學都誤會了她的爸爸是個江湖高手——慕夜飛鷹,相繼要求拜為師傅,此時Ellen才對爸爸改觀。但任慕英被誤以為是絕招的身手,不過是在照顧女兒的時候練出來的。 女兒開始覺得爸爸老了,可她還是到處惹禍,更被慕夜飛鷹的仇家脅持,任慕英為了救回女兒,獨自女兒被困的地方……
粗魯蠻橫的博貝克(金·科林斯 Kim Collins 飾)和女兒維多利亞(Amy Brassette 飾)參加釣魚大賽,誰知到手的魚兒卻被一條白鯊吃掉。博貝克勃然大怒,竟然用炸藥對付鯊魚,結果父女引來了可怕的殺身之禍,連駕駛游艇的船長也無法幸免。次日,愛娃(Mackenzie Rosman 飾)、卡梅隆(Jaren Mitchell 飾)、米克(Shawn C. Phillips 飾)、布雷西(Dave Randolph-Mayhem Davis 飾)等幾名年輕人來海邊玩耍,可在歡樂之時一條全身散發熒光的鯊魚向人們發起猛烈攻擊。原來鯊魚也有憎惡怨恨之心,昨晚的鯊魚雖被博貝克炸死,但它的怨念使它化身為復仇的鬼鯊魚,向所有人類展開報復。 而這一切的背后,又藏著不可告人的秘密……