朋友妈妈2018

　　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.

　　叉烧（郑丹瑞 饰）是一个不务正业的小青年，整体装神弄鬼骗钱。一天，叉烧的一个租客——在夜总会当妈妈桑的大B（叶德娴 饰）的家里来了一个客人，她美丽的外甥女云云（邱淑贞 饰）。大B用尽千方百计将美丽的云云哄到夜总会当舞女，想着从她身上大赚一笔。一个晚上，黑社会老大炮哥到夜 总会消遣时遇到了云云，炮哥垂涎她的美色，找人把云云捉走了。怎知谁也料不到云云这个弱女子竟然拥有超能力——会喷火，关键时候她用自己的超能力脱身了。不久叉烧就得知了云云的这个本领，于是，一个坏主意计上心头……

　　

　　电视台的监制阿南（曾志伟 饰）一直郁郁不得志，虽然才华横溢，但是由于不善交际，做的都是一些冷门时段的节目。这日，他在一个公众场合偶遇了过气歌手阿Ken（吴镇宇 饰），发现阿Ken想方设法都想上台献唱。看着阿Ken的古怪举动，阿南突然有了一个想法，发现了一条可以帮助二人成功的道路。阿南向阿Ken提出成为他的独家代理人，并帮他重新包装，保证他一定能咸鱼翻身。原来，阿南的计划就是让Kenny装疯卖傻，全力吸引传媒的视线，为了能再次踏上舞台，阿Ken答应了。　　果然如阿南所料，Kenny的疯癫行为引来了大批传媒，他也迅速走红。此时，电视台为了能让Kenny来上节目，只好满足阿南的要求，将他调到热门时段的节目让他大展拳脚。正当这对伙伴的事业一帆风顺时，一个艰难的抉择却摆在了阿南面前。