蔷薇地狱

　　故事发生在1921年的西班牙，一艘蒸汽船载着260名西班牙移民驶往美国，他们满心期待在那里能够开始他们崭新的人生。不幸的人，一场船难袭击了这群追梦者，他们所乘坐的蒸汽船载西班牙加利西亚海岸附近的一座小岛旁沉没了。幸运的是，岛上生活的三个女人发现了这批遇难者，她们热情的给予了帮助，最终，50名乘客得到了救助，保住了性命，这三个女人也因此名声远扬，被视为英雄。　　一名阿根廷记者闻讯来到了这座小岛，想要将这件事情写成报道，可是，随着他调查的深入，记者发现很多事情都和他所听说的不符，不仅如此，他还开始怀疑，或许蒸汽船的沉没从一开始就不是一场意外。

　　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.

　　Golf Club经理潘致文(刘青云饰)与老婆张美瑛(蒋怡饰)结婚将近七年，生活平淡、枯燥，虽然他渴望着过过“放荡的新生活”，但是天性胆小，只敢说不敢做，基本上是一个善良的小男人。　　这一次美瑛要去外地旅行，潘致文觉得这是个大好机会，于是决定趁这个“婚姻大假”找寻一些刺激。抚慰自己强压六年多的欲海。　　夜晚在PUB中，致文就邂逅了冶艳少女赵静(应采儿饰)，令到他心痒难忍。正当致文准备向阿静展开攻势的时候，却在相处中了解到她原来身世相当凄惨，放荡的行为只是因为孤寂的逆反，致文怜悯之心大增，无奈中不得不放弃了占有的欲念。　　而与此同时，致文又遇上了自己的初恋情人张采冰(刘嘉玲饰)，已经成为事业女性的阿冰目前生活无忧，身边男伴无数，并且和一个健身教练WIL(安志杰饰)关系暧昧。但是外表热情似火的她对于致文依旧念念不忘，致文立刻与冰重燃了爱火，但同时也觉得对妻子心存愧疚。然而此时此刻家庭的危机也渐渐发生了出人意料的变化……

　　丑小鸭成功拯救鸟类王国后回到了鸭子农场，在那里他受到了英雄般的待遇，丑小鸭也开始沉迷于这种明星的光环。　　另一边鸟类王国中一场不知名的瘟疫蔓延开来，不少鸟儿都染病不起，天鹅议员们派人前去寻求卡尔骑士的帮助，正巧卡尔骑士意外受伤，只能让丑小鸭去查明原因，可没想到在看到瘟疫惨状时，丑小鸭情绪崩溃害怕的逃走了，众人对丑小鸭失望透顶。　　逃走的丑小鸭也陷入深深的自责中，他终于重新振作起来，决定和丑小八一起找出病因，却没想到被暗中潜伏的加瓦埋伏，夺走了他的力量，还将他困在了枯井之中，在井内，丑小鸭找到生机，见到了鸟类神秘的古代遗迹，也揭开加瓦的秘密。危机时刻，丑小鸭及时赶到激活琉璃鸟之光，再次拯救了鸟类王国。

　　纽约，一名女童在登上一辆汽车后遇害身亡，女警梅根（艾丽莎·杜什库 Eliza Dushku 饰）调查此案，她敏锐的意识到被害女童的姓与名以及案发地三者的首字母相同，但除此之外毫无线索，梅根为查案用尽办法，然而却一无所获，反而梅根本人的精神压力日渐累积，她开始看到被害女童的幻影，终于精力不支甚至选择自杀，最后不得不接受精神治疗。两年后，再次有符合首字母规律的女童被害案件发生，此时的梅根不顾上司反对，再次介入调查，她和搭档在排查多位嫌疑人的同时，这位针对女童的“首字母杀手”作案愈发频繁。梅根究竟能否拼贴出凶手的真相？　　本片根据真实案件改编。

 NJ（吴念真）是个很有原则的生意人，同妻子敏敏（金燕玲）、女儿婷婷（李凯莉）、儿子洋洋（张杨洋）以及外婆住在台北某所普通公寓里。小舅子的一场麻烦婚礼过后，因为外婆突然中风昏迷，他迎来更加混乱的日子。敏敏公司、家里两头跑，时常感觉自己要被耗空；婷婷一直为外婆的中风内疚，恋爱谈到中途发现自己不过是替代品；NJ更是麻烦重重，公司面临破产，他又不愿放下别人眼里一文不值的自尊。一家人里，似乎只有洋洋没有烦恼，他平静地用照相机拍着各种人的背面，帮他们长出另一双眼睛，然而，洋洋简简单单的一句话，道出更深的悲凉。