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一個死囚犯的女兒Lucy(佩吉)呼吁廢除死刑,遇到一個警官的女兒Mercy(瑪拉),兩人相愛了。而該警官的搭檔被一個正要接受死刑的罪犯所殺,Lucy和Mercy立場對立,家人也無法接受這段關系,但她們的感情日益增加……
一個死囚犯的女兒Lucy(佩吉)呼吁廢除死刑,遇到一個警官的女兒Mercy(瑪拉),兩人相愛了。而該警官的搭檔被一個正要接受死刑的罪犯所殺,Lucy和Mercy立場對立,家人也無法接受這段關系,但她們的感情日益增加……
洛桑的三歲孫女央金被酒后駕駛拖拉機的豆拉伽撞成了高位截癱,由此引發了三個家庭的矛盾,最后和解,實現了信仰與法律的相輔相成。
麥克墨菲(杰克·尼科爾森 Jack Nicholson 飾)為了逃避監獄里的強制勞動,裝作精神異常,被送進了精神病院,他的到來,給死氣沉沉的精神病院帶來了劇烈的沖擊。 麥克要求看棒球比賽的電視轉播,挑戰了醫院嚴格的管理制度,受到護士長拉契特(路易絲·弗萊徹 Louise Fletcher 飾)的百般阻撓;麥克帶領病人出海捕魚,振奮了他們的精神,卻讓院方頭痛不已。院方為了懲處麥克膽大妄為、屢犯院規,決定將他永遠留在瘋人院。生性自由的麥克再也無法忍受瘋人院的生活,他聯合病友,高大的印第安人“酋長”,開始自己的計劃:飛越瘋人院。 本片獲1975年第48屆奧斯卡最佳影片,最佳男、女主角,最佳導演和最佳改編劇本五項大獎。主人公“不自由,毋寧死”的精神在當今社會仍有很大的現實意義。
Olivia and The Clouds explores love's complexities through a Rashomon effect. Olivia, haunted by a past love, hides it under her bed. She trades flowers with this ghost in exchange for comforting rain clouds.
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.