天蝎座之夜3

 马里亚诺·德·桑蒂斯是意大利共和国总统。此人与现实中的任何总统均无关联，完全是作者虚构的人物。他丧偶多年，且信奉天主教，有一个女儿名叫多罗泰亚——和他一样，女儿也是一名法律学者。任期即将结束之际，在波澜不惊的日常中，两项最后的职责摆在了他面前：就两份敏感的总统特赦申请做出决定。这些抉择构成了真正的道德困境，并且以看似无法理清的方式，与他的私人生活纠缠在了一起。在疑虑的驱使下，他必须做出抉择。而这位杰出的意大利总统，怀着强烈的责任感，必将履行这份职责。

　　19岁的少年赛斯·戴维斯（吉奥瓦尼·瑞比西 Giovanni Ribisi饰）一心希望能尽快淘到自己的第一桶金，好让父亲另眼相看。他本打算靠玩非法纸牌起家，却发现此路根本行不通，直到一家名为J.T.马林经纪公司的股票经纪商找上了赛维斯。　　在这个号称“锅炉房”的核心办公室里，多少个一夜间成为百万富翁的故事深深诱惑着赛维斯。很快，野心勃勃的赛维斯便以优异的成绩通过了股票经济人认证考试，开始了他的“成功之路”。他把那些永远都没有前途的股票卖给利欲熏心的投资者。赛维斯正以极危险的速度追逐着金钱与利益，靠近着他所谓的功成名就，贪婪而不安。在纽约长岛这个瞬息万变的商业圈里，良心未泯的赛维斯终于开始面对良心的考验。

　　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.

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