胎兒密獵時刻

從社交媒體差評到治療師的真相炸彈， 特雷弗·諾亞在這場搞笑、犀利又輕快的單口喜劇演出中將混亂變為喜劇。

　　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.

　　故事發生在一間專門面向歌劇退休演員開放的養老院里，維爾福（比利·康諾利 Billy Connolly 飾）、雷吉（湯姆·康特奈 Tom Courtenay 飾）和茜茜（寶林·科林斯 Pauline Collins 飾）是那里的明星居民。每一年，這三個出色的演唱者都會通過他們的三重唱向社會募集資金，用以維持養老院的運作。雖然養老院的規模不大，但每一個老人都能在那里找到快樂和安寧。　　簡（瑪吉·史密斯 Maggie Smith 飾）的出現打破了眾人寧靜的生活，這個高傲又好斗的女人是歌劇界名聲大噪的歌唱家，同時，她還是雷吉的前妻。受生活所迫，簡不得已住進了這間養老院，前夫雷吉的存在更是讓她心中憤憤不平。由于簡的加入，三重唱變成了四重唱，但排練的效果并沒有因為一個得力唱匠的加入而有所提高，麻煩和爭執接踵而至。

　　民國年間，上海灘閘北區保德路發生一樁命案，死者后來經過確認，竟然是馬源商會老板馬廣則。　　多年來，馬源商會在閘北一直都頗具影響力，馬廣則更是最被看好的商界風云人物，他的死打破了閘北區原本的寧靜。