遇事別沖動

一塊寶地遭人惦記、一枚軍功章引賊來、十萬現金不翼而飛，夜半老漢離奇昏迷，三名陌生男子橫躺家中。是陰謀？是誤會？層層烏龍背后，深藏的是榮譽執念與親情渴望。當真相揭開，一切竟源于最樸素的執念與最陰差陽錯的誤會……榮譽與親情，最終將如何安放？

地獄無淚

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.

三塊廣告牌

 米爾德雷德（弗蘭西斯·麥克多蒙德 Frances McDormand 飾）的女兒在外出時慘遭奸殺，米爾德雷德和丈夫查理（約翰·哈克斯 John Hawkes 飾）之間的婚姻因此走到了盡頭，如今，她同兒子羅比（盧卡斯·赫奇斯 Lucas Hedges飾）過著相依為命的生活。一晃眼幾個月過去了，案件仍然沒有告破預兆，而警方似乎早已經將注意力從案子上轉移了開來。被絕望和痛苦纏繞的米爾德雷德租下了高速公路邊上的三塊巨型廣告牌，在上面控訴警方辦案無能，并將矛頭直接對準了警察局局長威洛比（伍迪·哈里森 Woody Harrelson 飾）。實際上，威洛比一直隱瞞著自己身患絕癥命不久矣的事實。因為這三塊廣告牌，米爾德雷德和威洛比的生活發生了翻天覆地的變化。