北地胭脂

　　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.

　　一名健身教练在德里一家高档俱乐部惨遭杀害。为了找出凶手，一位老辣的调查员揭开了俱乐部富豪会员的肮脏秘密。

一名19岁的罪犯汤米（Tommy）被一对功能失调的夫妇克里斯（Chris）和凯瑟琳（Kathryn）绑架，并被迫接受他们的“改造计划”，试图将他塑造成一个“好男孩”。汤米必须设法逃脱。

 故事发生在20世纪80年代的美国，美籍韩裔男子雅各布（史蒂文·元 Steven Yeun 饰）带着妻子莫妮卡（韩艺璃 饰）和两个孩子大卫（Alan S. Kim 饰）、安妮（Noel Cho 饰）一起从熟悉的西海岸搬到了偏僻而又陌生的阿肯色州。虽然对于丈夫的这一决定，莫妮卡的心中十分的反对，但她拗不过雅各布的坚决和顽固，只得被迫夫唱妇随。蛮荒之地的生活既不舒适也不有趣，在最初的新鲜感过去之后，大卫和安妮很快就开始怀念起过去的生活了。之后，孩子们的外婆也来到了他们的身边，给这个家庭带来了一丝热闹的气息。雅各布没有发现的是，当他将越来越多的时间和精力投入到开发农场这件事情上时，他和妻子之间的距离就越来越远。