辣妹天使

　　一家玩具公司的狡猾主管綁架了圣誕老人，這對父子必須挺身而出，營救圣誕老人，拯救圣誕節。

　　林寶生（周潤發 飾）是香港富豪，與表妹玉仙（利智 飾）早已訂婚。但寶生并不喜歡未婚妻的庸俗，決定逃婚，并要證明自己能獨立生活。出走的第一天，他陰差陽錯來到了一個慈善晚會，認識了晚會贊助商東東快餐店的老板（夏雨 飾）與其妹妹（張艾嘉 飾），還成為了快餐店的員工之一。寶生與一群善良的同事度過了一段難忘的時光，他也看到了自己價值的存在，與老板的妹妹也產生了感情，但他與表妹的婚期將至，他的真實身份也將浮出水面，而他與老板妹妹的感情又會如何呢？

　　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.

 對于音樂家雷米（帕特里克·迪瓦爾 Patrick Dewaere 飾）來說，日子變得越來越不好過，不僅僅是職業上的停滯不前，妻子一成不變的容顏和乏味的婚姻生活也讓他幾近抓狂。就在這個節骨眼上，妻子車禍身亡的消息讓雷米感到震驚卻又有一絲解脫，而妻子留下的14歲的繼女瑪麗安（阿里爾·貝西 Ariel Besse 飾）也成為了一個包袱。瑪麗安的生父想奪回瑪麗安的撫養權，沒想到，小小的瑪麗安卻更愿意和繼父生活在一起。同一屋檐下，這對沒有血緣關系的“父女”之間的情感變得朦朧而又曖昧。對于瑪麗安的火熱表白，雷米從最初的果斷拒絕到之后的欲拒還迎，他能否守住倫理道德的最后一條底線呢？