悄然之星

　　無數次的災難與戰爭，讓人類的數量銳減，似乎也因此使得宇宙變得更加寧靜。而今人工智能機器人已在宇宙間占有絕對的統治地位，人類卻只有兩成左右。雖然科學極大進步，可惜人類無法突破壽命的百年限定，他們匆匆而來，默默而終，不知不覺走向滅亡。　　帶有濃重昭和氣息的宇宙飛船中，生活著編號為722的人形機器人鈴木洋子（神樂坂惠 飾）。她與AI機器人相伴，永遠奔波在漫長的宇宙旅途中。她的日常百無聊賴，洗衣服、縫扣子、剪指甲、打掃衛生，孤獨與靜寂永無止境。洋子是一名宇宙快遞員，她所投遞的貨物卻都是些看似無關緊要的小物件。每次投遞需要花費數年時間，縱使瞬間旅行已成可能，不過她卻似乎有什么理由消磨這漫長的時光。一顆孤獨的星球上，仿佛被全宇宙所遺忘的人類，在破敗的街道上等待著遠方的造訪……

我的老婆是明星

　　朱淇（劉心悠 飾）一直以來都希望成為一名演員，然而，在娛樂圈摸爬滾打浸淫多年，始終缺少一點運氣的她卻依然只能在劇中混得一個跑龍套的小角色。一次偶然之中，電影公司的大老板杰夫（林德信 飾）看中了朱淇，欽點她做一部炒得十分紅火的賀歲片的女主角，朱淇興奮之余害怕自己已婚的身份會影響星途，于是決定隱瞞這一事實。　　朱淇的丈夫賴毛（周柏豪 飾）是一名娛樂記者，為了老婆的前途著想，他只能不情不愿的配合著朱淇的腳步。然而，隨著朱淇的走紅，賴毛發現自己和老婆之間的距離越來越遠，不禁心生疑慮，潛伏劇組之后方才發現朱淇和杰夫之間竟然有著撲朔不明的曖昧關系。

致我的青春

阿里

　　阿里曾是一位年輕的教師，他辭去了工作，卻被父親無情地趕出了家門。在感到迷茫和孤獨之際，他重新找到了舊友，這一舉動觸發了他一段深刻的自我探索之旅。

另一個地球

　　在一個平靜的夜晚，一輛飛馳而來的汽車，撞碎了音樂教授約翰（威廉·麥鮑瑟 William Mapother 飾）的幸福生活，他的妻女以及美好的人生都被尚未成年的少女羅娜（布里特·馬靈 Brit Marling 飾）奪去。這起事故，也讓羅娜的心靈蒙受巨大打擊。罪惡感讓她過著最底層的生活，卻始終逃脫不掉靈魂的譴責。偶然機會，她重逢約翰，并以清潔人員的名義走進約翰潦倒無望的生活。在一段時間相處過后，他們漸漸溫暖了彼此漫布創痕的心。與此同時，人類發現了一顆與地球極為相似的行星，而那里似乎也住著人類另一個自己。這是希望，還是美好的夢想？　　本片榮獲2011年圣丹斯電影節評委會特別獎。

等待方舟

　　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.