二階堂夢 – 不滅の女神

　　勞拉，來自馬德里的西班牙律師，為尋找她失蹤的妹妹薩拉，深入剛果叢林的鈳鉭鐵礦產區，營救妹妹

面對癌癥，奧斯卡訓練他的殘疾兒子比利在雜貨店裝袋，希望在時間耗盡之前為他找到一份工作和獨立。

　　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.

 動畫改編自法國作家大仲馬的同名小說《三劍客》。科琳娜（Kelly Sheridan 配音）出生在一個民風淳樸而又保守的小鎮之中，從小，科琳娜的性格就有些像男孩子，勇敢而又執著。她一直夢想著能夠前往大都市巴黎，在那里成為一名劍客，然而，在那個年代，女孩子想要成為劍客，那簡直就是一件不可能發生的事情。幸運的是，科琳娜結識了三位和她志同道合的姑娘們——艾拉米娜（Kelly Sheridan 配音）、薇薇卡（Cassidy Ladden 配音）和蕾妮（坎迪斯·麥克盧爾 Kandyse McClure 配音），三人一拍即合，決定相互幫助，實現她們彼此的夢想。在巴黎，三個姑娘不僅女扮男裝，混入化裝舞會，甚至在機緣巧合之下拯救了王子的性命，充滿了刺激的冒險就此拉開序幕。