爱你九周半

　　1990年，一艘巨大的飞船出现在地球上空，人们惶恐不安，却又分外好奇。经过一段时间紧张的等待，外星飞船始终没有动静。人类终于小心翼翼靠近它，强行走进舱内，结果发现了不计其数的外星人。他们形容丑陋，宛如虾子，而且健康状况极差，虚弱无力。原来这是一群来自外星的难民，他们最终被地球人接纳，并隔离在南非约翰内斯堡的一片区域内生活，此地名为“第九区”。经过长达20年的繁衍，外星难民的数量扩张至180万之多，且和周边人类的矛盾冲突不断，越来越多的人类呼吁将“大虾”赶出地球。　　MNU（列国同盟组织）经过磋商，决定将外星难民迁移到更为偏远的区域。MNU外星事务部门的特工威库斯（Sharlto Copley 饰）专门负责搬迁工作。威库斯在动员过程中傲慢随意，与当地居民冲突频频。最终，他为自己的行为付出代价，外星人的神秘流体将其感染，威库斯慢慢变成了外星人的模样……

　　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.

 在梦幻浪漫的芭比乐园里，美丽自信的芭比们每日过着快乐无忧的生活，她们活跃在每一个工作岗位，肯是点缀，女孩的聚会才至关重要。直到某一天，我们的主角芭比（玛格特·罗比 Margot Robbie 饰）突然提到了生死，她的完美生活毫无征兆发生改变。她的口气不再清新，面容开始犹豫憔悴，也无法轻盈地从顶楼飘落下来。经前辈点播，她意识到人类世界某个人和她建立着联系，而那个人的心境似乎正投射到芭比的身上来。为了找回曾经的完美生活，芭比和肯（瑞恩·高斯林 Ryan Gosling 饰）辗转来到现实世界，并经过一番波折见到了葛洛莉娅（亚美莉卡·费雷拉 America Ferrera 饰）母女，而肯也在见识到男权社会的魅力之后，心中升起要改变芭比乐园的念头……

　　一个出生在印第安区的黑人女孩意外继承了一片充满石油的土地，汹涌的黑金下，她将面对攫取、迫害、偏见、中伤，并用她的意外横财去帮助他人。