VN.030-梦小楠小夜猫

泰勒·汤姆林森（Taylor Tomlinson）在她的第四部喜剧特辑《浪子回头的女儿》（Prodigal Daughter）中，以一个关于解构信仰、处理宗教创伤、探索性取向和面对死亡恐惧的紧张新时刻回到了她的根本。

在十年前的拳击界，张力（张继聪 饰）是如日中天的「金童」，却因一场意外失去了自由。十年后，他刑满出狱，遇上他从未见面的亲生儿子方圆。为了得到方圆母亲的遗产，需要与方圆一起生活。张力面临生活困境与情感纠葛，令他的生活再次翻转。在父子间的矛盾与和解中，张力逐渐找到自己的使命，面对过去在擂台上的阴影，决意再次重拾拳击梦想，并努力成为儿子的榜样...

　　★《罗格河》：一位年轻的女性驾车沿着罗格河旅行，可是她的车子却神秘的消失了。失去了代步工具和通信，别无选择，她只得接受了一位陌生人的好意在他的小屋中过夜。可是这个选择却让她后悔终生。在接下来的时间里除了折磨还是折磨，难以描述的疼痛与令人恐怖的苦痛。如果你看过苦痛，你就什么都没看过。这部电影在其他恐怖电影结束之处开始，恐惧与作呕将萦绕观影者始终。

　　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.