红辣椒(1991)

以下两位千禧一代将他们不拥有的纽约公寓卖给了不知道自己被骗的新买家。这个骗子干得很出色，直到他们遇到了一个公寓老板，他有一个黑暗的秘密，把这个游戏玩弄在他们身上。

　　A writer who studies the paranormal believes that low frequency tactile sound is the cause for reported ghost sightings in an abandoned subway station. In an attempt to debunk the sightings, she breaks into the station to record evidence.

　　本片在2025年圣丹斯电影节一举拿下世界剧情片竞赛单元评审团特别奖（创作视野）和观众奖两项大奖。马其顿偏远村庄的15岁的牧羊少年沉醉于音乐世界，但在传统社会规则下，他必须面对来自周遭环境与父亲的质疑。某日放羊途中，他偶遇了一场大型的电子舞会，邂逅令他心动的女孩……导演乔治·M·温科夫斯基的长片首作试图探索集体期望与自我表达之间的微妙平衡。片中鲜活的色彩、诙谐的桥段、惹人怜爱的角色和韵律十足的音乐，为这个成长故事注入勃勃生命力。影片温柔且有力地回答了艺术如何成为精神避难所，又如何变为成长催化剂。

　　夜深人静之时，年轻女子瑞切尔（Anessa Ramsey 饰）和艾莉莎（Hannah Bryan 饰）突然遭到神秘之人的袭击和绑架。当她们清醒过来后，发现自己正被绑在一座谷仓中，戴着面具的恐怖男子为她们举行邪气逼人的仪式。另一方面，受债务困扰的男人本（AJ Bowen 饰）联合女友艾米（卡瑟琳·兰道夫 Katherine Randolph 饰）、弟弟汤米（安德鲁·布瑞兰 Andrew Breland 饰）以及陌生男人保罗（Sonny Marinelli 饰）策划绑架了富有商人瑞恩·海登（詹姆斯·巴兹 James Bartz 饰）的女儿，并索取高达两百万美元的赎金。　　正当本和保罗众人为了赎金起整治的时候，死里逃生的瑞切尔突然出现，随之而来的还有残忍的春之祭杀人魔……

　　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.

　　克隆技术在不远的未来有了长足的进步，但复制人仍是法理上不可逾越的禁区，政府通过《第六天法》严格禁止克隆人。　　飞行员亚当（Arnold Schwarzenegger 饰）拥有幸福的家庭，他出于本能的厌恶那些违背自然规律的基因技术。亚当平时的工作是和搭档送游客上雪峰，这天他们为宠物克隆公司的老板恰克（Tony Goldwyn 饰）服务，搭档顶替亚当驾驶却发生了意外……回到家中的亚当发现居然有一个克隆人顶替了自己的位置参加他的生日宴，莫名惊恐之下他又被来路不明的杀手追杀，他很快明白自己成为了宠物克隆公司的人类复制试验品，做为母体，他面临被消灭的危险。　　在逃亡的过程中亚当与暴力反对克隆人计划的组织合作，成功潜入宠物克隆公司，并控制了克隆人技术的负责人威尔博士……