漂亮的姐姐

　　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.

　　A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray when his family is viciously threatened.

　　安吉拉（珍妮·盖诺 Janet Gaynor 饰）的母亲身患重病，急需药物进行治疗。生活在穷困潦倒之中的安吉拉无奈之下只能行窃救命，她的举动自然遭到了警方的通缉和追捕，安吉拉就此踏上了逃亡的旅途。　　途中，安吉拉来到了一个马戏团之中，隐姓埋名成为了其中的一名演员，这正好帮助她拜托了警方的纠缠。在马戏团中，安吉拉邂逅了名为基诺（查尔斯·法莱尔 Charles Farrell 饰）的年轻画家。基诺虽然有着一身的才华却依旧只是一个名不见经传的无名画家，安吉拉的出现激发了他的灵感，帮助他取得了事业上的成就，坠入爱河的两人决定结婚，但在婚礼举行之际，警方还是发现了安吉拉的踪迹。

　　年末的横滨消防通信指令中心异常繁忙，事故、疾病、火灾与各种纠纷不断。此时，是否引入“AI指令员”取代人工的议题引发内部对立。除夕夜突发大规模停电，全市混乱、报警激增，指令员们在极限状态中持续接警与指挥救援。作品描绘他们直面困难时坚持工作的理由，以及“拯救他人”这一行为的真正意义。城市陷入黑暗，他们必须用仅存的“声音”守护生命。