地獄小分隊

等待方舟

　　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.

車庫驚魂

　　圣誕前夜，雖然家人熱切地期盼，但美麗干練的女律師安吉拉（瑞秋·尼科爾斯Rachel Nichols 飾）仍在辦公室努力工作，進行最后的沖刺。繁冗的工作終至尾聲，安吉拉獨自下到地下車庫，準備驅車回家。不過她的車無論如何也發動不了，車庫電梯門也被鎖住，于是她只好向保安托馬斯（韋斯·本特利 Wes Bentley 飾）求助。托馬斯友善恭敬，熱情施以援手，卻不知其心中藏著怎樣的黑暗念頭。　　寫字樓大門緊鎖，致使準備乘計程車回家的安吉拉在此返回保安室求助托馬斯。時機業已成熟，托馬斯露出猙獰面目，他綁架了安吉拉，強迫她參加自己的圣誕晚宴。這個愛慕安吉拉的小男人，給安吉拉帶來一個宛如噩夢般的圣誕節……

四面三角

西關大屋

　　廣州末代西關小姐潘夢蝶，曾是一位絕代佳人，如今住在西關大屋中。在將近一個世紀的時間長河里，她堅守著自己的愛情，堅守著家族的秘密，堅守著屬于她自己的祖屋……社區民警馬思鵬是一位身手矯健、頭腦聰穎、樂于助人的人民警察。他接到了一樁名為“代號西關小姐”的涉毒案件。在調查的過程中，馬思鵬結識潘夢蝶及其后人葉伊西。隨著案件的深入，許多不為人知的秘密隨之解開，一場關于警民、親情、血緣等復雜情感的生死較量即將展開……

小鎮突襲

　　巴倫為首的四個刺客,偽造成特勤局特工去到艾倫家里,艾倫是一個因為戰爭失去了丈夫的女人.她家的位置很適合偷襲總統,那些人騙過了當地的警察,只有托德頭腦依然清晰明了,他是個伊拉克的戰爭英雄,曾經和艾倫的丈夫一起服役,托德想辦法殺了他們的一個手下,但被抓了.他們必須在總統被刺殺之前找到一個辦法阻止刺客。。。。。

掏出你的手帕

 這是一位始終以兩性關系、婚姻道德為主題的電影作者，這部獲得奧斯卡最佳外語片的《掏出你的手帕》也不在例外。關于影片，布里耶是這樣解釋的：“表面上看這是一部怪誕的電影，但實際上這是一部徹底顛倒道德標準的片子，不過表現得比較委婉且具有魅力。如果仔細觀察就可以看出，所有的道德價值都被顛倒了，所有的道德傳統都被拋到了一邊。人物的思想狀態正處于一種極端混亂的時期，今天你也許還不會把妻子當作禮物送給別人，但也許將來你就可以做到了。”