嗲囡囡FEILIN-寫真集 VN.033 悅爺妖精

大佛回國

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　　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.

致命交友軟件

　　19歲商務專業大學生Trina目睹了自己輔導過的女生Jade在車庫被撞死，但警方認為是一起意外事件。為了支付大學費用，Trina開發了一個獨特的約會APP軟件UPFRONT。在UPFRONT取得了巨大的成功之后，Trina無意中得知自己的APP被一些女生濫用為賣淫中心。正在Trina與朋友、導師商量是否需要關閉網站或者報警時，發現其中一個做應召的女生在宿舍自殺。Trina在追查兩個女生的死因的過程中，發現導師的老公竟然是Jade的常客。在準備和導師見面的過程中，發現導師被刺，最后的兇手竟然是瘋狂愛上Jade的院長。最后在合作朋友的幫助下，將院長繩之以法。

孔雀鎮

　　在孔雀鎮的鐵路旁邊，生活著一個有著灰暗過去的男子——約翰·斯基爾帕（希里安·墨菲 Cillian Murphy 飾），他自幼在母親的淫威下長大，由此養成了壓抑自閉的性格。在母親去世后，約翰的人格分裂，其內心生出象征母性的女子埃瑪。約翰就這樣在男女兩個身份間轉換，過著平靜而扭曲的隱蔽生活。　　某個清晨，災禍突然降臨。一個火車頭脫軌闖入約翰家的院子，正在晾曬衣物的埃瑪受到驚嚇，并且出現在小鎮人民的面前。人們對此議論紛紛，約翰則希望盡快將火車頭清除院子，然而政客們卻打算以此作為政治斗爭的砝碼。面對種種混亂的局面，約翰和埃瑪的心中焦慮重重，他們的矛盾也漸次激化……