花花女郎的秘密

 两个值守夜班的“倒霉蛋”甜点心（乔·基瑞 饰）和内奥米（乔治娜·坎贝尔 饰），意外发现了疯狂繁殖的外星寄生真菌，无福消受这顿重口加班餐的二人发出求救信号。“淡淡死感”的退休特工罗伯特（连姆·尼森 饰）被迫再就业，重新上岗拯救即将被真菌腐蚀的世界。他们一边躲避着因寄生而绿液四溅的宿主们，一边和翻涌的肠胃做斗争，在一阵阵爆浆声中大开“惊喜盲盒”。这组画风迥异的“临时战友”能否阻挡这场末日浩劫？谁又能活着走出这个惊魂之夜……

　　The persona of a celebrated author is threatened when her best friend and muse reveals the dark secret behind her first novel's provenance, igniting an incendiary tale of sex, lies and betrayal.

　　威尼斯的地平线单元中，出现了这样一部电影，不扯人性，“三观”却正到让人大呼过瘾，这就是讲述了一个干脆利落的复仇故事的西班牙电影《迟来的愤怒》。　　影片讲述了一个男人为了替在抢劫案中惨死的女友和变成植物人的老爸报仇，潜伏八年，甚至睡了抢劫团伙司机的孩子他妈，只为等他出狱，威胁他，顺藤摸瓜找到躲藏起来的真凶们，一个一个复仇。

　　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.