丝袜

A story of redemption in a world gone dark.

　　美发师纪阿开（张学友）、服装设计师大眼龙（莫少聪）和风水师赖布丁（周星驰）三个死党合伙开了一家新潮美发店，不料开业当天就与隔壁理发店老板发生争执，幸得店老板女儿亚英（张敏）及时出手风波平息，过程中，三人皆被亚英魅力吸引，为赢其芳心，开始频频登其家门献殷勤。　　某次晚餐聚会后，三人烂醉与亚英误睡一室，导致亚英怀孕，为与亚英一起生活，三人争先恐后将准父亲一职往自己身上揽，又因三人血型相同，医院也无法验出谁在冒名，亚英父母决定先考察三人表现，为争当最佳女婿，三人使尽浑身解数展开激烈角逐。

　　讲述二战后在纽伦堡提审德国纳粹计划的法律关系者，三个被告提审的原因是给犹太人施行断种手术。担任主审判长的是美国人赫鲁特，他主张其中两个被告无罪；而德国司法部长亚林克竟对此事保持沉默，但检查官罗森上校却激烈的指责被告，因此三个人展开激烈的辩论。审讯继续进行下去。而美国的高级官员们希望能在审判中获提德国所犯罪行的良好证明，因此对审判施以极大的压力，但赫鲁特坚守法律的正义立场，给予了最公正的判决。在宣布判决结果时，只有亚林对赫鲁特审判长的态度表示赞赏。

　　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.