官能教室：爱的技巧

　　波比（艾米丽·巴德 Emily Bader 饰）自由奔放，亚历克斯（汤姆·布莱斯 Tom Blyth 饰）循规蹈矩，这对好友看似格格不入，前后相识已有十年之久。尽管分隔两地，每年暑假仍会一起度过。旁人都看得出来他们的友情不一般，而当两人终于开始思索彼此或许更适合成为情人时，爱情与友情之间那条微妙的界线也逐渐受到考验。他们真有可能是天作之合吗？　　影片根据艾米莉·亨利的同名畅销书改编。

《我最亲爱的小姐》由哈维尔·卡尔沃和哈维尔·安布罗西制作，改编自1972年奥斯卡提名的同名电影，由杰米·德·阿里马南执导，他与何塞·路易斯·博劳共同撰写剧本，由何塞·路易斯·洛佩斯·巴斯克斯主演。

高俐醉酒被强哥等人绑架索赎金一亿，杨非因父需百万手术费赶路时车被同一伙劫匪抢走。二人相遇后，杨非助高俐斗绑匪，发现高俐与曾因治妻病抵押房产、借高利贷却致家庭破裂的父亲有矛盾。最终高俐获救，与父和解，杨非凑齐手术费，二人相恋。

　　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.