八月蕾丝情

等待方舟

　　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.

裂口女2

　　泽田家在岐阜县经营养鸡场，家里有三个姐妹花。大女儿泽田幸子（川村雪绘 饰）马上就要结婚，二女儿泽田雪枝（岩佐真悠子 饰）在美容院工作，小女儿泽田真弓（飞鸟凛 饰）正读中学，生性活泼。然而，突如其来的惨剧将幸福的一家推入了深渊。雪枝过去的男朋友铃木因为妒火攻心，想要加害雪枝，不料却把硫酸误泼到了真弓脸上。深受伤害的真弓从此失去了笑 容，两个姐姐陪伴在她身边不断鼓励她。　　不久后，真弓学校的同学以及毕业生接连被杀，整个街区笼罩在恐怖的阴影之中……

七月寒潮

　　出于自卫，理查德射杀了侵入自己家中的陌生人。但是他不得不面对死者父亲的残忍报复。然而不久，敌对双方就发现事实并不像表面展现的那么简单，他们不得不联合起来面对黑暗的真相。

大佛普拉斯

 菜埔（庄益增 饰）是一家雕塑厂的夜间保安，家中有一位重病的老母亲需要照顾。肚财（陈竹昇 饰）是菜埔唯一的朋友，菜埔经常在值夜班的时候把肚财叫过来和他作伴。一天，两人突发奇想决定看一看菜埔的老板黄启文（戴立忍 饰）的行车记录仪里记录了哪些影像，希望向来风流的老板能够贡献出一些精彩的片段以解两个独身男人内心里的寂寞之苦。行车记录仪所记录的影像果然没有让菜埔和肚财失望，但与此同时，两人也发现了黄启文的许多不可告人的秘密。实际上，菜埔和肚财的一举一动皆没有逃过黄启文的眼睛，为了保住自己的地位和名声，他决定采取一些必要的行动。

赤脚大仙

月球

　　2029年，韩国载人飞船“探月号”出发前往月球，即将产生第二个成功登月的国家，任务备受全世界瞩目。然而“探月号”不幸遇上太阳黑子爆发所引致的太阳风暴，发生严重意外，宇航员黄善宇（都暻秀 饰）成为“探月号”的唯一幸存者。为了营救流浪月球的黄善宇，隐居小白山天文台的前载人飞船飞行总监金载国（薛景求 饰），加入了救援行动，同时韩国政府亦要求美国太空总署（NASA）的总监尹文英（金喜爱 饰）及月球门户太空站介入协助，但却一直遇上重重阻挠。载人飞船的燃料将近耗尽，氧气亦正在倒数，再加上流星雨撞击与月震，被孤立在38.4万公里以外月球上的宇航员黄善宇，个人的一小步也足以令全球人类紧张屏息，到底营救行动会如何发展？