两个女人在有风景的海滩

　　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.

　　《悬案密码》系列的第三部：6年前，一只在海上漂流的瓶子在苏格兰被打捞上岸，然而里面的求救信却被视为不祥之物，直到一位调查人员无意中看出了信件开头用丹麦文写着：救命！随着卡尔和两名下属的破解，他们发现署名“保罗”的作者不仅确有其人，而且在写下瓶中信后便下落不明......　　为何少年的家人不曾追究他的行踪？难道他在多年前便已遭遇不测？正当调查陷入胶着，一起离奇车祸让原本天衣无缝的邪恶罪行露出破绽，串起所有线索的卡尔这才明白，自己面对的并不单是一桩陈年旧案，而是过去十几年来，许多破碎家庭的绝望呼救…

　　知名画家创作的最后一幅作品“恶灵画像”后离奇死亡了，女设计师张琳和同伴早就听说过“恶灵画像”具有诅咒的传说----见者必死。强烈的猎奇心理驱使貌美性感的张琳走向了寻找“恶灵画像”的路上，在寻找的过程中不断遭遇了一系列灵异、诡异事件……身边同伴不断失踪、离奇死亡...... 张琳是否能在探秘的过程中活下来… 是否能够找到“恶灵画像”. 真相逐步揭开。

　　英国海滨小镇布赖顿，凯特斯和卡林奥里两大黑帮组织盘踞于此，互相角力，此消彼长。某夜，凯特斯被对头当街杀害，视老大如亲父的平基（Sam Riley 饰）目睹了凶案的全过程，于是想参与者之一的福瑞德（Sean Harris 饰）展开追杀。福瑞德虽死，却留下一堆的麻烦，他生前为了躲避跟踪曾某餐馆女侍应生罗丝（Andrea Riseborough 饰），并与之留下合影。为了销毁证据，平基开始接近这名单纯的女孩，而罗丝也渐渐爱上了帅气冷酷的平基。与此同时，凯特斯的死亡也让布赖顿的黑帮势力失衡，一方面卡林奥里迅速扩张，一方面本帮内部展开权力争夺，平基深陷其中无法自拔……　　本片根据Graham Greene 的小说改编。