比太阳更火热

　　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.

　　美国德州一所高中，以布莱德利（贾斯廷·阿诺德 Justin Arnold 饰）为首的一众男女学生风生水起，横行霸道，经常以欺负人为乐趣。印度裔学生莱比（Vincent Silochan 饰）、瘦小的戴恩（马克·多纳托 Marc Donato 饰）和有些内向自闭的女孩艾米莉（林德赛·西德尔 Lindsay Seidel 饰）等人更是他们优先欺负的对象。学校的状况已然如此，与亲人的关系又分外冷淡和紧张，戴恩他们的生活看不到一点儿希望。　　8个月前，戴恩的叔叔去世，留给他一座偌大的农场作遗产。饱受欺负且试图自杀的他找到和自己同病相怜的几个人，他们决定把学校的小霸王们请到举行派对，在劲歌热舞之中展开准备已久的血腥复仇……

　　电视台的监制阿南（曾志伟 饰）一直郁郁不得志，虽然才华横溢，但是由于不善交际，做的都是一些冷门时段的节目。这日，他在一个公众场合偶遇了过气歌手阿Ken（吴镇宇 饰），发现阿Ken想方设法都想上台献唱。看着阿Ken的古怪举动，阿南突然有了一个想法，发现了一条可以帮助二人成功的道路。阿南向阿Ken提出成为他的独家代理人，并帮他重新包装，保证他一定能咸鱼翻身。原来，阿南的计划就是让Kenny装疯卖傻，全力吸引传媒的视线，为了能再次踏上舞台，阿Ken答应了。　　果然如阿南所料，Kenny的疯癫行为引来了大批传媒，他也迅速走红。此时，电视台为了能让Kenny来上节目，只好满足阿南的要求，将他调到热门时段的节目让他大展拳脚。正当这对伙伴的事业一帆风顺时，一个艰难的抉择却摆在了阿南面前。

　　在阳光明媚的日子里，灰太狼突然闯入羊村，虽然他被小羊羊们击退，却把村长的变身魔毯打劫回去。表现英勇的喜羊羊受到伙伴们的称赞，而懒羊羊对此反而有些愤愤不平。为了证明自己的实力，他将慢羊羊的时空照相机错认为手枪，将其偷走后闯入狼堡。得知消息的喜羊羊匆匆赶去营救，结果在混乱之中被卷入时空乱流回到了远古时代，灰太狼和懒羊羊更被魔毯互换了身体。灰太狼无意中被原始羊的千金相为驸马，懒羊羊则成为几只笨狼的首领。　　可怕的是有一条能把任何生物变成石头的恶龙肆虐，为了保卫原始时代的朋友们，喜羊羊他们携手挑战恶龙，懒羊羊更成为了足以改变历史的英雄人物……