嫩草的香味

　　PG-13　　An endless army of shadow demons bent on the destruction of all reality swarms over our world and all parallel Earths. The only thing opposing them is the mightiest team of metahumans ever assembled. But not even the combined power of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and all their fellow superheroes can slow down the onslaught of this invincible horde. What mysterious force is driving them? And how do the long-buried secrets of the Monitor and Supergirl threaten to crush our last defense?

　　为了实现一个无人相信的伟大梦想，马蒂去了一趟地狱。　　年轻迷人的马蒂，渴望名声、荣耀，以及遥不可及的“世界乒乓球冠军”头衔。为了梦想，他什么都能做到。穿越纽约、巴黎、伦敦、开罗与东京，他在无数的挫折与考验中前行，遇见了挚友、恋人与伙伴，也一次次在胜败之间重生。最终，他开创了自己的伟大道路，也领悟了荣光的真正意义。

一名男子在加利福尼亚沙漠徒步旅行时，发现自己的车不见了。当他四处寻找时，他跟着一个流浪的男孩，最终来到了一个年轻女子占据的偏远小屋。两人之间发生了一种奇怪的动态，伴随着几次与威胁女孩的男孩的暴力冲突。当这个男人意识到他掉进了一个精心设计的陷阱时，想要避免他将要遭受的可怕后果已经太晚了。《种子》是作家兼导演巴纳比·克莱的一部大胆、噩梦般的处女作，他的著名mv作品包括Gnarls Barkley的歌曲、“YYYs”等。这部慢热的震撼剧讲述了有毒的男子气概和我们对孤立的恐惧，它有效地呈现了一个男人在面对绝望和生存之战时心理的恶化。作为新人，巴纳比·克莱是一位不可忽视的导演。(南宗锡)

　　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.