一千零一夜

　　一部混杂音乐剧和丧尸电影的喜剧片，这部僵尸歌舞片的框架基于2010年英国电影学院奖获奖短片《僵尸音乐剧》（暂译）（ZombieMusical），讲述了一大波僵尸穷追猛打一撮人，他们边唱边打，不断求生的故事。电影取景地为苏格兰，由艾拉·亨特出演安娜，马克·本顿饰演安娜的父亲，保罗·凯耶出演反派。

　　《灵魂灯》的故事发生在封建时代的一个北方村庄。Thuong 独自抚养儿子，希望丈夫服完兵役后能回来。一天，Linh（Thuong 的儿子）无意中捡到一盏神秘的灯。他开始称墙上的影子为父亲。据村里的巫师说，这是一盏灵魂灯，可能召唤了寻求报复的恶灵。从那一刻起，不寻常的鬼魂事件开始困扰 Thuong 和村民。

　　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.

　　水树沙罗（岛崎遥香 饰）是一个在演艺圈打拼多年的青年女演员，虽然她努力磨练演技，勤奋专注，却始终未得到世人的关注。在此期间她受到来自事务所的压力，二者相权之际最终选择参加剧作家锦野豪太（小市慢太郎 饰）的新作《鲜血的召唤》的试镜。《鲜血的召唤》根据史上真实人物嗜血如命的伊丽莎白的故事改编，为了美这个女人不惜残害鲜活的生命。沙罗与同事务所小有名气的女星筱原葵（高田里穗 饰）一同试镜，两人最终分别获得了农家女孩安娜以及主角伊丽莎白的角色。　　在排演过程中，放置在舞台中央的人偶似乎有了自己的意识，让本就为了荣光而近乎癫狂的女子们更走向了崩溃的边缘……