真夜中の不倫妻

　　摄影师工藤太郎在坐飞机的途中发现一架太空囊坠入大海，那正是4个月前离奇失踪的无人木星探测器赫利俄斯7号。回国后的工藤接到陪同开发公司调查队前往塞吉欧岛的工作，而塞吉欧岛正位于赫利俄斯7号坠落地点的附近……　　另一方面，塞吉欧岛突然出现巨大的怪兽，这一切似乎和赫利俄斯7号有关……

　　一晃十年过去，地球人和虫族的战争如火如荼，愈演愈烈。某日，空军元帅奥玛•阿诺克（斯蒂芬•霍根 Stephen Hogan 饰）来地球人的远方农场罗库山视察，时任上校的强尼•瑞克（加斯帕•范•迪恩 Casper Van Dien 饰）也一同前来。在此期间，阿诺克的心智被虫王操控，他切断了隔离区的电力，使基地完全失去保护。是夜，虫族对隔离区发动总攻，地球军虽顽强抵抗，终因寡不敌众而告败，基地陷落。阿诺克则和一干心腹逃离，飞船迫降在OM-1行星。　　瑞克因失职被军事法庭判处绞刑，行刑之际被政府秘密部门救下。阿诺克知晓联邦舰队基地所在地的秘密，一旦被虫族得知将不堪设想。因此政府高层要求瑞克带上一队人马，前去营救受困的阿诺克……

　　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.

 Set against the backdrop of a working farm in rural Northern Ireland, 'An Irish Goodbye' is a black comedy following the reunion of estranged brothers Turlough (Seamus O’Hara) and Lorcan (James Martin) following the untimely death of their mother (Michelle Fairley).Under the watchful eye of odd-ball parish priest Father O’Shea (Paddy Jenkins), the brothers’ pained reunion is worsened by the fact Turlough must now make new care arrangements for Lorcan, who has Down Syndrome. But when the brothers discover an unfulfilled bucket list belonging to their late mother, Lorcan senses an opportunity: he’ll only agree to leave the farm once he and Turlough have themselves completed every single wish on their mother’s list…all one-hundred of them.