豪情夜生活

　　故事发生在繁华的大都市东京，十四岁的少女阿绿（中村里砂 饰）失去了唯一的亲人，孤苦无依的她在误打误撞之中走进了名为“赤猫座”的巡回马戏团中，就此拉开了悲惨人生的序幕。无处可去的阿绿在马戏团中受尽了众人的凌辱和折磨，沦为奴隶和佣人，日子过得苦不堪言，每一天都是地狱般的写照 。　　就在阿绿快要绝望之时，侏儒魔术师出现在了马戏团中，出现在了她的眼前。侏儒魔术师的出现让快要倒闭的马戏团重现生机，他亦成为了马戏团中最重要的成员。与此同时，阿绿在魔术师的身上找到了久违的温暖和感情，两人决定结婚，双双逃离这充满了痛苦的魔窟。

　　故事背景发生在抗日战争时期，主角郭东是一名兽医，他的妻儿惨遭日本兵杀害，从此躲到了草原边陲的一个小镇上，过着惶惶不可终日的生活。郭东的自暴自弃使得他与当地人产生许多矛盾。就在此时，一名蒙古族孕妇的生命危在旦夕，众人无奈之下求助郭东，郭东在新生命的洗礼和蒙古族战士的感染下，重新明白了"英雄"的意义，完成了自我救赎。

一名男子在郊区一间空荡荡的房子里醒来，没有记忆，手臂上沾着血迹。当他疯狂地洗掉血迹时，他发现那不是他的。他在房子周围发现了一些便利贴，上面写着:“不要呆在这个房间里。”“别出去。”“别下楼。”他感到困惑，试图追踪这些神秘的信息，最终发现了两件事。他与母亲和女儿的记忆有某种联系，还有住在这所郊区房子里的恶魔。当他越来越接近解开他为什么在那里的谜团时，恶魔变得越来越强大，考验着他的生存意志。

　　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.

莉迪娅从小在父亲的暴力阴影下长大，游泳是她唯一的逃避方式。她凭借奖学金进入大学，却在成年后陷入毒瘾、混乱的性关系和失去孩子的痛苦中。她的人生如同水流，时而湍急、时而沉寂，无法掌控方向。在最深的低谷中，莉迪娅开始写作。文字成为她的呼吸，也成为她重新定义自己的方式。她不再只是受害者，而是讲述者，是创造者。通过回望过去，她一点点拼凑出破碎的自我，也在写作中找到了勇气。 　　影片改编自莉迪亚·尤克纳维奇所著回忆录。

在一场毁灭性的飓风中，一个沿海小镇正奋力对抗大自然的愤怒以及鲨鱼的袭击。在倾盆大雨、飞散的残骸和伸手不见五指的黑暗中，他们团结一心，勇敢面对致命的掠食者，努力在风暴中生存下来。