处子之身

 随着赫尔曼·J·曼凯维奇争分夺秒地完成奥逊·威尔斯的《公民凯恩》剧本，人们将通过这位尖刻的社会评论家兼嗜酒编剧的视角，重新审视 20 世纪 30 年代的好莱坞。

　　致力于研究暴力行为根源的世界著名心理学家阿曼达·泰勒博士，有一个访谈和评估死囚杰克逊·谢伊的良机，随着访谈的开始，决定杰克命运的天平失去了平衡，阿曼达必须决定是否应该允许执行死刑！

 迪兹（加里·库珀 Gary Cooper 饰）是一位小有成就的商人，早已经衣食无忧的他希望能够从繁忙的事务中脱身，将时间更多的花费在自己的兴趣爱好之上。一笔价值两千万的巨额遗产从天而降落到了迪兹的头上，报社问询派来了记者芭比（琪恩·亚瑟 Jean Arthur 饰），希望她能够从迪兹的身上挖掘出一些吸引眼球的新闻。刚开始，芭比十分看不惯迪兹的处世为人，但随着时间的推移，她渐渐被后者的善良和正直所吸引，两人之间产生了浪漫的爱情。迪兹决定将得到的遗产用于帮助深陷贫困的人，这一举动遭到了律师约翰（Douglass Dumbrille 饰）的质疑，他坚定的认为迪兹的脑袋可能出了什么问题，甚至将他告到了法庭。

　　16岁的男孩基奇(Kitch)身在的城市经历了毁灭性的灾难，过半的人口失踪和死亡。天空上到处是无人机，奇怪的是这些无人机是有自主意识的，它们脱离人类的控制，与人类展开对抗。男主角在寻找父亲的过程中无意间知晓了可以在人体植入某种物质的密集，在一连串遭遇后带着他的无人机加入了一个叫DR1的组织，然后各种开挂用人控无人机打无人机的故事。

　　从小，楚仁（姜东元 饰）就知道自己拥有能够控制人心的超能力，凡是被他的双眼所正视的人，无一例外的会被迷惑而任其摆布。靠着着神奇的超能力，楚仁得到了一切他想要得到的东西，但人性本就贪婪，个性乖僻的他依然没有感到满足，而是变本加厉的使用这能力干起了犯罪的勾当。　　在一次偷窃行动中，楚仁和名为奎南（高修 饰）的男子相遇了。让楚仁感到震惊的是，这个外表平凡的男子居然没有受到自己的蛊惑，他不仅让行动遭遇了失败，还害自己错手杀死了无辜的人成为了通缉的对象。更让楚仁愤怒的是，不自量力的奎南居然对自己展开了调查。一场猫鼠之间的追逐正式拉开了序幕。

　　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.