八月蕾丝情

　　王元娥（苑乔 饰）一直以来都深深的爱慕着名为陈喆的男生，可是，王元娥知道自己非常的普通，和在校园里闪耀着耀眼光芒的陈喆相去甚远，所以选择将这份感情深深的埋藏在心底。单求胥的父亲将儿子送进了王元娥和陈喆所在的班级之中，单求胥的目的很简单，那就是混到顺利毕业，然后出国追求自己的自由自在的人生。　　一次偶然之中，王元娥和单求胥之间爆发了争吵，但也正因为如此，单求胥得以走进了王元娥的内心，发现了她单纯善良的一面，并为此深深着迷。可是，王元娥的全部心思都挂在了陈喆的身上，这让单求胥非常的苦恼。

杰弗里和莎拉是一对通奸的夫妇，他们谋杀的合法妻子索菲亚的尸体从太平间神秘消失后，他们拼命地寻找不在场证明。警探阿里亚·普拉达纳竭尽全力，试图揭开真相。尸体复活是为了向凶手复仇吗？

本片是一部以大学生宫田阳彩（南沙良 饰）为主角的“青春逃亡故事”。阳彩一边上学，一边从早到晚忙于打工和家务。虽然母亲并未对她施加暴力，但她一直被母亲口中的“爱”束缚着，在这种温柔却令人窒息的绝望和对人生的失落感中度日。她定期给母亲送钱，照顾她，却始终感受不到真正的自由和幸福。某天，阳彩在打工的地方邂逅了同班同学江永雅（马场富美加 饰）。这次相遇，悄然改变了阳彩的人生轨迹。

　　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.