已婚护士的慰藉

　　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.

　　故事发生在万圣节的当晚，塔拉（Jenna Kanell 饰）和道恩（Catherine Corcoran 饰）醉醺醺的从一个派对中离开，走在清冷的大街上，两人打算去一家披萨店弄点吃的，一个小丑打扮的男人尾随她们也进入了店里，虽然小丑的样貌十分可怖，但个 性似乎还挺可爱的，除了他把店里的厕所弄的一团糟，气炸了店主。　　之后，塔拉和道恩离开了店里，塔拉进入了一间公寓上厕所，道恩在路边等她，小丑再度出现在了她的身后，这一次，小丑想做的便不仅仅是逗她笑这么简单了。小丑打晕了塔拉，当塔拉再度醒来时，映入眼帘的，是被倒挂的道恩和在一边手持电锯的小丑。

　　平凡女人杰莎贝尔（莎拉·斯努克 Sarah Snook 饰）与男友普瑞斯顿（马克·韦伯 Mark Webber 饰）即将迎来新的生命，当他们准备搬入新家之际，却遭遇一场突如其来的车祸。这场灾难让当下两个最重要的生命从杰莎贝尔的人生中消失，痛不欲生的她拨通了久未谋面的父亲的电话，坐着轮椅回到了位于路易斯安那的老家。某天，杰莎偶然在床下找到一卷母亲当年生她之前录下的影像，画面中妈妈期望女儿能在18岁那年看到录影带，而且用塔罗牌预测了杰莎未来的运势。预言中有一个看不见的灵魂逡巡在杰莎的身旁，而对方却满怀恶意企图将杰莎赶出房子。　　在此之后，诡异的梦境和神秘事件接连向杰莎袭来，而她将遭遇最为恐怖的一段噩梦体验……

　　年末的横滨消防通信指令中心异常繁忙，事故、疾病、火灾与各种纠纷不断。此时，是否引入“AI指令员”取代人工的议题引发内部对立。除夕夜突发大规模停电，全市混乱、报警激增，指令员们在极限状态中持续接警与指挥救援。作品描绘他们直面困难时坚持工作的理由，以及“拯救他人”这一行为的真正意义。城市陷入黑暗，他们必须用仅存的“声音”守护生命。