鏡花風月之與鬼同眠

　　卡洛斯在一家銀行支行當總經理，最近他正和妻子瑪爾塔鬧別扭。風和日麗的一天，他送兩個孩子馬科斯和莎拉上學，卻發生了改變他人生命運的事。嶄新的汽車上莫名其妙地出現一部手機，一個陌生男人打來電話，號稱卡洛斯的車里被安置了一顆炸彈。而恰在此時，一個神秘的黑衣摩的男尾隨而至。這是一個惡作劇，還是真實的綁架勒索？事情的緣起何故，卡洛斯一家命運又該如何？這部西班牙電影將為你呈現一百分鐘的驚心動魄……

　　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.

　　高速公路：琵姆是高速公路收費站夜班收費員。凌晨三點鐘在她當值的時候，一股邪惡力量正在威脅她的生命。 一夜情：譚是一個繪畫修復者，喜歡參加各種派對和夜店。一天，譚遇見了一個神秘、性感的女人娜潘，并對她一見鐘情。第二天凌晨三點鐘，他找到娜潘并跟隨她到她家。這個女人究竟是誰？ 電視直銷：山姆是一檔電視購物節目的導演。他的組員和主持人打算合伙捉弄他。他們密謀了一系列奇異的事件，想要報復一下這個自大的導演。凌晨三點鐘，導演助理歐接到了山姆女朋友的電話，她打電話來是告訴他，山姆在來電視臺的路上出車禍死了。歐試圖把這個消息告訴組員們，但是沒人相信他的話。這時，所有燈瞬間熄滅，惡作劇開始了……

　　安東尼（馬提亞斯·施維赫夫 Matthias Schweigh?fer 飾）和保羅（弗洛里安·大衛·弗里茨 Florian David Fitz 飾）是從小玩到大的青梅竹馬，兩人共同經歷了太多的事情，彼此之間的友誼堅不可破。成年之后，他們一起創辦了一家公司，這一天，公司覓得了一名非常慷慨的投資人，為了慶祝這件事情，公司里開設了一場盛大的派對，在派對上，玩的興起的安東尼和保羅決定打一個賭，賭注是公司百分之五十的股份。　　安東尼和保羅交出了身上所有的東西，兩人回歸到身無分文的狀態，然后每一天，他們都可以在他們所擁有的東西里拿回一件，如此往復，看誰能夠撐更長的時間，先放棄的人就是輸家。