漂亮女客栈

　　粗鲁蛮横的博贝克（金·科林斯 Kim Collins 饰）和女儿维多利亚（Amy Brassette 饰）参加钓鱼大赛，谁知到手的鱼儿却被一条白鲨吃掉。博贝克勃然大怒，竟然用炸药对付鲨鱼，结果父女引来了可怕的杀身之祸，连驾驶游艇的船长也无法幸免。次日，爱娃（Mackenzie Rosman 饰）、卡梅隆（Jaren Mitchell 饰）、米克（Shawn C. Phillips 饰）、布雷西（Dave Randolph-Mayhem Davis 饰）等几名年轻人来海边玩耍，可在欢乐之时一条全身散发荧光的鲨鱼向人们发起猛烈攻击。原来鲨鱼也有憎恶怨恨之心，昨晚的鲨鱼虽被博贝克炸死，但它的怨念使它化身为复仇的鬼鲨鱼，向所有人类展开报复。　　而这一切的背后，又藏着不可告人的秘密……

 该作品改编自2000年同名纪录片，讲述塔米·菲（杰西卡·查斯坦 饰）和吉姆·贝克（安德鲁·加菲尔德 饰）这对夫妇作为电视福音布道家的大起大落。在上世纪70-80年代，塔米·菲和吉姆·贝克从贫寒中奋起，创建了当时世界上最庞大的宗教广播电视网和一个主题公园，他们传递的爱、接纳和繁荣的主题受到人们的尊敬。塔米 · 菲以她夸张的睫毛，独特的歌声、以及她热情拥抱各行各业的人们而成为传奇。不过好景不长，经济上的不当行为、诡计多端的竞争对手以及性丑闻的爆发使得这对夫妇的婚姻破裂，导致他们精心构建起来的帝国开始崩塌。

　　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.