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.

致我的青春

遠古狂蟒

在墨西哥的叢林深處的神廟，考古學家們發現了一種古老的蛇崇拜文化，同時他們不小心釋放了一條沉睡了幾個世紀的巨大而可怕的蟒蛇。

維克多·弗蘭肯斯坦

　　正駐扎于倫敦的馬戲團內，生活著自幼駝背的青年（丹尼爾·雷德克里夫 Daniel Radcliffe 飾）。他的丑樣子只能供人家取樂，而青年獨獨熱愛醫學，尤其擅長解剖學。在某次演出事故中，青年用自己的學識救下了摔成骨折命懸一線的女演員羅蕾萊（杰西卡·布朗·芬德利 Jessica Brown Findlay 飾）。他的學問得到瘋狂科學家維克多·弗蘭肯斯坦（詹姆斯·麥卡沃伊 James McAvoy 飾）的賞識，于是后者想方設法將其劫了出來，還為其起名伊戈爾。在此之前，弗蘭肯斯坦曾經做出盜取動物園死亡動物尸體的事情，而他這一系列的做法只為進行一項瘋狂大膽的實驗，那就是縫縫補補創造出來人造的生物。　　瘋狂之旅就此展開……

于特島7月22日

　　在2011年的7月21日那天，650個年輕人正在于特島上參加夏令營，他們剛剛得知一個令人震驚的消息，奧斯陸的一座政府大樓被一個全副武裝的右翼激進份子炸毀，接著激進分子就來到了于特島。影片將跟隨一名叫卡佳（Kaja）的小女孩，在聽到了激進分子的第一聲槍響后，令人窒息的72分鐘生存掙扎。影片根據真實事件改編，于特島慘案是自第二次世界大戰以來全球最嚴重的單人犯罪槍擊案。