白日美人

　　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.

　　In the near future, drugs and crime have risen 500%. A disintegrating police force is unable to deal with this horrifying problem...

　　曾经叱咤小镇的“大哥”黄荣发（黄渤 饰）如今嘴硬腿软，开启人生困难模式，但他和家人都没有被命运的风浪裹挟。儿子黑狗达（范丞丞 饰）看似是黄家唯一“淡人”，暗地却密谋如何发家又“治父”；妻子陈梨珍（殷桃 饰）样样全能横扫困难，是小镇人尽皆知不太好惹的“妈系超人”；胆大手“黑”的女儿黄娇娇（李嘉琦 饰）和“神”通广大的阿太（刘雪华 饰）也各出奇招笑料百出。逆境当前，一家唯有兴“疯”作浪跟生活贴脸硬刚，没准真能让他们绝地翻盘？

　　火、水、风、土、和空气，生命五种核心元素曾经注入在一本书--命运之书。黑暗笼罩了大地，需要借助笔和书的力量，但这本书却失踪了，人们以为它永远消失了，但数百年后却又再度出现……

　　A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.

　　这是一部终极警匪拍档动作喜剧，除了他们并不是真的警察。当一对穷途末路的好兄弟选择以警装参加了一场化妆舞会后，他们成为了街坊邻居的大人物。这对新崛起的英雄在面对真实世界的歹徒恶棍及游走黑白的贪污警探时，他们拿起假证件整装备战。