爱之火1990

　　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.

　　一个隐蔽的海洛因治疗中心的病人和工作人员必须与他们自己的恶魔进行战斗，因为一个神秘的杀手开始一个接一个地把他们抓走。

 当我们为权力金钱焦虑、兴奋与愤怒时，却根本想象不到“他们”在谈论着怎样更重要的事情。随着战争阴云笼罩世界上空，各国紧锣密鼓抓紧军事竞赛。为了抢占先机，美国陆军中将莱斯利·格罗夫斯（马特·达蒙 Matt Damon 饰）找到量子力学与核物理学领域的扛鼎人物罗伯特·奥本海默（基里安·墨菲 Cillian Murphy 饰），力荐其担任曼哈顿计划的首席科学家以及洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室的总负责人。经过两年争分夺秒的研发，硕大的蘑菇云终于在荒原的上空腾起，也宣告着绞肉机一般的二战即将落下帷幕。奥本海默有如将火种带到人间的普罗米修斯，可是对人性的参悟和对未来的担忧迫使他走向与政府相悖的道路。更可悲的是，凡人钟情的物欲也将一世天才裹挟至炼狱之中，永世燃烧……

　　凯撒（安迪·瑟金斯 饰）领导的猿族将被迫与残暴的Colonel（伍迪·哈里森 饰）领导的人类军队上演一场生死大战。猿族在战斗中遭遇了前所未有的重创，由此激发了凯撒内心中黑暗的一面，心中燃起复仇的烈火。最终，凯撒与Colonel面对面进行了一场关乎猿族和人类命运的终极之战。