露西亚的情人

　　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.

　　故事发生在位于伊利诺斯州的哈登菲尔德小镇。臭名昭著的杀人狂迈克尔（泰勒·梅恩 Tyler Mane 饰）终于倒在了少女劳利（丝柯·泰勒-考普顿 Scout Taylor-Compton 饰）的枪下，然而之后他的尸体却神秘的消失了，与此同时，在医院里，出现了一个身份诡异而又神秘的病人，又一场血腥的杀戮即将拉开序幕。　　幸运的劳利再一次的从迈克尔的屠刀下死里逃生，可是，巨大的阴影始终笼罩在她的周围，因为她知道，迈克尔一天不死，就总会再度回到她的身边。一晃眼一年过去，万圣节又要来了，与此同时将要举办的，是死难者的纪念会。劳利能够感觉到，一双熟悉的眼睛正在默默的注视着她。

　　不知曾几何时，地球突然爆发恐怖的丧尸病毒，成千上万的人被病毒感染，随后化作嗜血丧尸撕咬同类，正常人类的数字直线减少。帕特里克（马修·福克斯 Matthew Fox 饰）和杰克（杰弗里·多诺万 Jeffrey Donovan 饰）当年乘坐巴士疏散，谁知途中遭遇最惨烈的 事件，这两个男人以及一个尚在襁褓中的小婴儿成为唯一的幸存者。九年后，地球上人类所剩无几，杰克以及当年的婴儿——可爱的小女孩露（奎恩·麦克科甘 Quinn McColgan 饰）住在一个寒冷的山村，父女俩相亲相爱，甜蜜温馨。与之相对，胡子拉碴的帕特里克与他们比邻而居，他似乎与杰克有着深深的隔膜。　　某个飘雪的夜晚，露意外在院落外目击到久未出现的丧尸的行踪，曾经的噩梦再度浮现……

　　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……