她的初恋

杰弗里（凯尔·麦克拉克伦 Kyle MacLachlan 饰）为了照料父亲而回到了久违的家乡小镇，哪知道在误打误撞之中令一场凶杀案件浮出水面，杰弗里就此结识了负责调查此案的警察威廉斯（乔治·迪克森 George Dickerson 饰），以及他的女儿桑迪（劳拉·邓恩 Laura Dern 饰）。桑迪告诉杰弗里，时间的真相或许和一个名叫多萝西（伊莎贝拉·罗西里尼 Isabella Rossellini 饰）的歌女有关。　　美丽神秘的多萝西很快就令杰弗里失去了理智，他偷偷的潜入了多萝西家中，恰巧发现了多萝西正在被一个名为弗兰克（丹尼斯·霍珀 Dennis Hopper 饰）的黑帮大佬虐待的事实。此时的杰弗里才开始意识到，在自己的视线范围之外，发生着很多黑暗而又罪恶的可怕之事。

　　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.

　　克莱尔（米歇尔·菲佛 饰）组织了一次特别的圣诞郊游活动，而她的家人却在忙碌中将她遗忘。当他们意识到错误时，她已经失踪了。他们的圣诞节岌岌可危，但克莱尔另有打算。

 故事发生在1966年6月6日的上午6时，在这样一个不吉利的时刻，美国大使罗伯特（格利高里·派克 Gregory Peck 饰）领养了一个男孩并取名戴米（哈维·史蒂芬斯 Harvey Stephens 饰）。随着时间的推移，戴米渐渐长大，一些奇怪事件的接连发生预示着厄运敲响了罗伯特的家门。戴米的保姆莫名自杀后，一个神秘的女人贝洛克（比莉·怀特劳 Billie Whitelaw 饰）毛遂自荐留在了戴米的身边。之后，神父博南（帕特里克·斯偌顿 Patrick Troughton 饰）找到了罗伯特，他告诉罗伯特，戴米是撒旦的孩子，戴米会不择手段完成统治世界的野心。对于神父的话，罗伯特半信半疑，直到博南神父的死讯传来，罗伯特才意识到，事态的发展是多么的糟糕。