私人按摩师

　　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.

对于16岁的女孩Jung-hee来说，一年中最困难的一天是她祖母的阵亡将士纪念日。郑熙通常很难和酗酒的母亲相处，但在这一天，她大喊大叫的祖父的妹妹来了。她每年都会责骂正熙的母亲和叔叔，问她为什么为自杀的祖母做追悼会，而不考虑找到离家出走的祖父。自从他的祖父在正熙出生的那天失踪后，正熙不知怎么地觉得这是她的错。所以Jung-hee决定去冒险，在那里她可以解开所有的秘密，结束她母亲的青春期。

 阿姆斯特丹，两个男人爱上了同一个女人，注定了一段纠缠的故事。惠瑛（全智贤饰）是画家，每天到广场帮路人画肖像，而像她一样风雨不改的，还有某人送来的一盘雏菊。每天雏菊总是准时送到，让她心里悸动而好奇。一天，匆匆而过的正佑(李成宰 饰)遇上了画家。他本是国际警察，来这个城市追捕杀手，然而却迷上了温婉动人的惠瑛，他让惠瑛帮他描肖像，他们的爱情在萌发盛开。这些情景，送花人看在眼里，痛在心里。他的身份注定了他必须给正佑让出位置，对惠瑛默默付出。因为，他就是正佑所寻找的杀手朴义(郑宇成 饰)。但是，强烈的爱终究让他不再躲在暗处，他决心争取幸福。二人在法律上，感情上的鲜明对立，注定了不能完满的结局，鲜血在惠瑛描有雏菊的花布上蔓延开来……

　　在近未来的反乌托邦社会，电视真人秀《过关斩将》（The Running Man）以血腥的生存竞赛霸占收视榜首。参赛者被称为“跑者”（Runners），必须在职业杀手的追猎下存活30天，一举一动皆被实时直播给嗜血的公众观众；每多活一天，便能累积更高额奖金。　　工人阶级的本·理查兹（格伦·鲍威尔 饰）为拯救重病女儿孤注一掷，被节目魅力十足却冷酷无情的制作人丹·基利安（乔什·布洛林 饰）说服，以“最后希望”的身份踏入这场死亡游戏。　　然而，本的叛逆、求生本能与坚韧意志，竟让他意外成为全民追捧的偶像——同时也成了整个体制的致命威胁。 随着收视率飙升至巅峰，危险指数同步暴涨。本不仅要智胜步步紧逼的猎人，更需对抗整个国度对他“惨败”的疯狂期待。　　影片改编自史蒂芬·金的同名小说。