深色調的愛麗絲 Darker Shades of Elise (2017)

 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？

　　萱島(竹野內豐)收到父親的訃告回到故鄉，從萱島的父親那里繼承土地的宇和島(山田孝之)與他一起，在山路上開車行駛時遭遇了意外事故。兩人醒來時，發現自己身處森林深處，被六個美麗的女人監禁著。

　　2012韓國電影《無情的城市》堪稱“韓國版《撞車》”，以9個人物為中心，講述他們在24小時內發生的連環悲劇。李基英在片中飾演一位放高利貸的放債人，他放貸給面臨破產危機的金大宇(金石勛飾)，在金大宇沒能力償還高利貸后李基英就以此為借口威脅金大宇說要摘除他的臟器。特別是李基英在殺死自己的妻子后，當他被指定為嫌疑人接受調查時面不改色、處變不驚、泰然處之的演技表現，令人感到毛骨悚然。

　　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.