微交少女

　　講述安倍晴明學生時代的故事。在陰陽寮，被譽為天才的安倍晴明與其他學生截然不同，他是個有些討人厭且對成為陰陽師毫無興趣的怪人。　　有一天，晴明受到貴族源博雅的委托，解決襲擊皇族徽子女王的怪異現象。盡管兩人經常發生沖突，但他們還是一起追尋真相。而一名學生的離奇死亡成為事件火索火索，引發了卷入平安京的邪惡陰謀和詛咒的動亂。

　　故事發生在1987年，席恩（基努·里維斯 Keanu Reeves 飾）雖然只是一介名不見經傳小小擦船工，卻擁有著與生俱來的橄欖球天賦，并且深深的熱愛著這一項充滿了競爭和沖突的體育運動。在令人興奮而又充滿了期待的賽季即將開始之際，明星球員們卻突然發起了罷工運動，眼看著球賽的票都銷售殆盡，這可急壞了球隊老板。　　就在這個節骨眼上，席恩站了出來，成為了球隊的教練，并且開始了替補球員的招募。就這樣，一個個從事著和橄欖球毫無關系的職業的男人們匯聚到了一起，他們之間唯一的共同點就是對橄欖球運動的熱愛。雖然席恩有著強大的號召力和凝聚力，但這些替補隊員們畢竟只是初出茅廬的菜鳥，他們真的能夠在席恩的訓練之下站到綠茵場之上嗎？

　　大老板(陳龍飾)所困的不法山客棧迎來了一群不一般的客官，這其中，來勢洶洶的西域人究竟是何身份?群妖匯集在此蠢蠢欲動又所圖為何?而路經此地的唐僧師徒四人又將變幻何人才能騙過眾人耳目?在這座無法使用法力的神秘客棧，一場驚心動魄的西游版“狼人殺”即將拉開序幕。

　　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.