靓汤

　　CW•布里格斯（伍迪•艾伦饰）是20世纪40年代美国纽约著名的北海岸保险公司的最出色的保险调查员，他的拿手绝活是能窥探犯人心中所想，从而轻而易举地破案。自从老板请来了“效率专家”贝蒂，这一切就改变了。贝蒂新官上任，带来新的策划新的管理方式，布里格斯成为被开刀的第一人。二人之间火药味甚浓。在同事乔治的生日会上，他俩被魔术师叫上台，在玉蝎子的魔力下，二人被催眠，醒来后对刚才发生的事一无所知。　　之后城内接二连三发生珠宝盗窃事件，而被窃珠宝的报警装置是布里格斯亲手设置的，没有他是不可能破开的。在调查案件中，肯辛顿家的尤物女儿（查理•塞隆饰）主动约他约会，他怀疑她的动机。而贝蒂请来侦探协助他调查让他更为不快。　　贝蒂是上司的情人，因为老板迟迟不肯跟妻子离婚而倍感伤心。神使鬼差走到了布里格斯家跟他倾诉，布里格斯怀疑是贝蒂泄漏了公司机密，随后贝蒂对他的示爱更令他加深怀疑。　　要在一系列欢笑嬉闹中，最后才想起一切缘自当初的那个玉蝎子的魔法，这些盗窃案最后还撮合了一对天作之合。

　　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.

　　带着过往伤痛，塞吉欧只身一人前往「微笑之村」担任代理教师。这座对负能量零容忍的小镇，明明曾遭逢巨变，居民们却笑口常开。原来，让这座微笑之村风光明媚的秘方，是一位能吸取人间苦痛的男孩，他的身体如祭坛，透过拥抱承担全村的悲伤。他为人搭建快乐天堂，自己却陷入无尽黑暗。塞吉欧与男孩的相遇，搅乱了镇上的平衡；那座炼狱之门，也终将反向人间敞开。

　　仁·阿玛瑞发明了革命性的药品型软件，可直接在人类大脑中创造虚拟现实，仅几秒钟就能体验几小时或几天的激动人心的冒险。仁要拯救弟弟于记忆迷局，而合作伙伴一心只想赚取利益，但是一切都是记忆连环套……