露西亚的情人

　　上野樹里と林遣都の共演により、第14回小説現代長編新人賞を受賞したパリュスあや子の小説「隣人X」が映画化。「隣人X 疑惑の彼女」のタイトルで12月1日より東京・新宿ピカデリーほか全国で公開される。

　　改编自泉朝树创作的同名畅销漫画，讲述女高中生突然发现自己能看到鬼魂，她选择假装看不见，即使同学被鬼魂缠身，她也视而不见。她能通过这种方法克服这场危机吗？

 神秘部落规矩离奇，怪事接连不断！？熊猫胡胡和国际巨星Jackie（成龙 饰）意外穿越进入与世隔绝的原始部落！拥有大小黑眼圈的憨萌熊猫胡胡竟被奉为“天降神兽”，还被族人们予以重任，坚信她能化解部落危机。为守护胡胡，Jackie只得与怪异的族人们斗智斗勇：偶尔御风飞翔的族长（马丽 饰）、偶尔萌猛反差的勇士强杉（乔杉 饰）、偶尔神力附体的王子图鲁（于洋 饰）和全程身手不凡的公主纱依（王影璐 饰），这场奇遇又会藏着怎样的爆笑冒险？胡胡能否化解部落的危机？神秘的部落背后又会隐藏着怎样的古老秘密？

　　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.