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　　这部新片名为《梦乡》（Dreamland），由曾在圣丹斯电影节摘得评审团特别奖的导演Miles Joris-Peyrafitte执导。故事背景设定在20世纪30年代的美国，经济萧条和沙尘暴肆虐着美国的普通百姓，一个15岁的男孩为了高额的赏金开始漫漫追捕路，他的目标正是玛歌特·罗比饰演的女劫匪。

　　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.

 故事发生在巴黎阿拉伯人和犹太人聚居区，那里有许多妓院。上了年纪、体弱多病的犹太妇女罗莎，负责照顾一群妓女所生的孩子，而她自己过去也曾当过妓女，并在纳粹集中营度过一段可怕的时光。影片主要表现罗莎夫人与她所照顾的一个阿拉伯男孩令人感动的关系。

　　在围剿斯克鲁人的战斗中，克里人星际战队成员弗斯（布丽·拉尔森 Brie Larson 饰）不幸成为对方的俘虏。斯克鲁人尝试探究弗斯的记忆，最终发现连弗斯本人都不知道的一段往事，进而也得知名为温迪•劳森博士的女子掌握着他们急于得到的时空引擎。趁对方不备，拥有强大超能力的弗斯摆脱束缚，逃到了代号为C-53的地球，而这里也正是她那段失落的记忆的发生地。未过多久，神盾局探员弗瑞特工（塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰）找上门来，而紧随其后的斯克鲁人更是引发了地球人前所未见的大骚动。　　在这一过程中，弗瑞特工意识到事态的严重性，并且帮助弗斯认清本来的自己。倔强的弗斯，终于找到了真正需要保护的东西……