禁忌爱人2019

　　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.

女孩从小被杀手家族囚禁抚养，只因她拥有罕见的血型，成为各方势力觊觎的“移动血库”。当宿敌卷土重来，她被迫与家族里守护她的杀手联手，打破囚笼，在枪林弹雨中为自己的生存杀出一条血路，也在并肩作战中，确认了两人之间早已滋生的爱情。

　　太阳党是一个恐怖组织，其首领救世主（林国斌 饰）善于开发战争机器人，他和女友玛利亚（叶倩文 饰）经常利用自己开发的机器人“先锋一号”大肆破坏。由于“先锋一号”威力强大，警方也常常束手无策。小徐原是英雄党的一分子，后来对自己团伙的所作所为深感不满而在师傅的担保下脱离了该组织。一次小徐在酒吧偶遇了专为警方开发战争机器人的专家阿毛（岑建勋 饰），两人一见如故，成为了好朋友。岂料太阳党因此怀疑小徐出卖了自己，因此派出新研制的机器人——外形和玛利亚一模一样的“先锋二号”追杀小徐；更糟糕的是，警方亦因此怀疑阿毛出卖了政府，因而同时派人前来捉捕他们。一对好兄弟，能否逃出生天？