19 十九

我家的事

一個家就是一個四季，每個家都有不能說的秘密。追尋身世的姊姊、艱辛求子的媽媽、天兵闖蕩的弟弟、試圖逆轉人生的爸爸，有歡聲笑鬧，也有哭泣仿徨，直到微光照進幽暗的心房。改編自短片《姊姊》，導演潘客印首部長片以不同家人視角，編織一部動人小品，勾勒平凡臺灣鄉間家庭橫越24年的鮮活畫像。藍葦華、高伊玲、曾敬驊、黃佩琪共組一家四口，串起四段時光的悲喜往事。

布偶秀50周年特別節目

科米蛙、豬小姐以及其他迷人的伙伴們，重返最初的布偶劇院舞臺，帶來全新的音樂、搞笑短劇，以及一連串的后臺大亂斗。

村“靚”了

　　該片講述了新時代，主人公陳建國回到家鄉，憑借創新精神和不懈努力，將曾經“臟亂差”問題突出的家鄉成功打造為遠近聞名的民宿旅游村，不僅帶動了鄉村經濟的蓬勃發展，顯著改善了村民的生活環境，更是引領村民踏上了共同富裕的小康道路，深刻展現了鄉村振興、創新合作、青年擔當以及鄉村發展的巨大潛力。

密室綁架

　　兩個蒙面人在街上綁架了一個女人并向其索要贖金，他們將她綁了起來并且堵住了她的嘴巴，但這個女人憑借自己有限的力量破壞了綁匪精心策劃的計劃。

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.