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.

格拉德貝克人質事件

　　故事發生在1988年的德國，漢斯（薩沙·亞歷山大·吉爾薩克 Sascha Alexander Ger?ak 飾）和迪特（亞歷山大·吉爾 Alexander Scheer 飾）搶劫了位于北威州格拉德貝克的德意志銀行，并且劫持了兩名銀行職員作為人質，帶著他們一起踏上了逃往的旅途。　　很快，負責此案的邁澤警探就展開了對于漢斯一行人的追捕。為了鉗制警方，漢斯的女友瑪麗昂（Marie Rosa Tietjen 飾）又劫持了一輛載有三十名乘客的公交車，來幫助男友脫離警方的追捕。因為歹徒手中的人質數量眾多，導致德國警方遲遲無法下手，引來了輿論和媒體的不滿，與此同時，迪特在一次意外中射殺了年僅14歲的少年曼紐埃爾，這場死亡事件將整個故事推上了高潮。

致我的青春

阿特拉斯聳聳肩2

　　Feature adaptation of the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.

洛杉磯劫案

 從未失手的珠寶大盜，本想干完最后一票便金盆洗手，卻與中年失意的精英高管意外結盟，聯手布下棋局。另一邊，深陷職場困局的王牌警探，正憑借蛛絲馬跡一步步將矛頭對準他們，更有黑幫劫匪暗中蟄伏，伺機攪局。螳螂捕蟬、黃雀在后，當規則與道德的邊界被打破，這場顛覆命運的驚天罪案，究竟誰能安全脫身？