妒忌2023

　　一卷神秘的中国古代卷轴，由于蕴藏着巨大的力量，邪恶的坏蛋们个个都想得到它来统治世界；一个来自中国西藏的无名武僧（周润发 饰），为了保护着卷卷轴，一直过着颠沛流离的生活，他几乎躲遍了世界的每一个角落。直到有一天，武僧觉得累了，于是，他开始物色合适的人成为自己的弟子，将这个艰巨的任务继承下去。街头混混卡尔（西恩•威廉•斯科特 Seann William Scott 饰）偶然中帮武僧解了围，或许是心灵感应，武僧感应到这个混小子就是自己的传人了，于是决定将一身武功传给卡尔。卡尔开始了他对抗邪恶的艰难宿命。

　　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.

 一颗陨石撞击苏格兰偏远森林，意外唤醒了自尼安德特人时代就蛰伏地底、以骨骼为食的远古克苏鲁式怪兽 “守骨异兽”。1976 年，调查者詹姆斯・惠勒深入洞穴后离奇失踪，仅留下一张怪兽剪影的 8mm 胶片。数十年后，他的孙女奥利维亚为寻找同样失踪的母亲，带领一群好友与怪兽专家哈里斯教授，深入洞穴系统调查连环失踪案，却不知自己正被这只地底生物步步猎杀，陷入绝境求生的猎杀游戏。

　　描述一群青少年学生参加美国太空总署主办的太空夏令营，亲身体验太空登月的操作环境。不料在一次意外中，他们乘坐的太空舱竟然真地发射升空，几个年轻人登时六神无主，幸好有一个机器人留在舱中协助他们化险为夷。在众多的太空科幻片中，哈瑞．温勒导演本片较著重太空知识的传递而非眩目迷人的特效。外景在NASA 实地拍摄，有些地方颇令人大开眼界。凯特．卡普肖饰演女教官、利．汤普森、凯利．普雷斯顿饰演太空历险的学生，但最讨人喜欢的还是那个造型和表演都相当有趣的机器人。