特区爱奴

　　Upon arrival to Venus, cosmonauts find furious volcanoes and sundry prehistoric beasts in Klushantev's film, based on a novel by the Soviet sci-fi writer Aleksandr Kazantsev. Footage has been recycled in three Corman productions: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Queen of Blood, and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (the directorial debut of Peter Bogdanovich).　　83min

　　Four insomniac med school students are lured into a neuroscience experiment that spirals out of control and must find a way out before it's too late.

　　20年前，社会主义国家南斯拉夫解体，奉行主义的更迭并未改变东欧这片多灾多难土地的命运。战火持续，人民罹难。时至今日，硝烟仍未从这里散去。卡萝尔（祖儿·费利克斯 Zoé Félix 饰）、马提亚（埃瑞克·萨文 Eric Savin 饰）、萨米尔（Arié Elmaleh 饰）是来自法国的救援小组成员。在完成任务后，他们驱车返回祖国。然而必经之路上有士兵把守，为了不浪费时间，萨米尔建议抄小路前进。这一决定将他们引入一条黑暗之途，行至半路，三人被一群全副武装的不明身份者绑架。在此后的数日内，他们全被关在不见天日的笼子里。　　对于对方的动机卡萝尔他们全然不知，只有无尽的恐惧伴随左右，而死神的脚步也在慢慢逼近……

　　两个不善社交的少女，一天晚上无聊，转向互联网寻找恐怖故事。他们在一个令人毛骨悚然的网络上找到了一个游戏，声称你可以用你的手机来召唤超自然...如果你输了比赛...你失去了生命

　　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.

阿彪继承了母亲的Kopitiam咖啡馆，并与妻子百合子共同经营。这家店曾经生意兴隆，但阿彪的管理方式和非传统的营销策略却引发了意外危机，使Kopitiam陷入前所未有的困境。在与一位知名网红发生冲突后，Kopitiam卷入了媒体风波，导致生意急剧下滑。就在阿彪和百合子拼命努力扭转局势时，他们又面临着被收回店铺的威胁。他们能否成功度过这场危机，保护自己的家族企业？在逆境中，他们的婚姻和Kopitiam咖啡馆又将何去何从？