女人的滋味

　　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.

　　20世紀50、60年代，亨利·韋斯特博士（威廉·麥鮑瑟 William Mapother 飾）創(chuàng)建了靈學實驗室阿提克斯研究所，針對超能力、透視、讀心術(shù)、隔空取物等邊緣學科展開研究。雖然遭遇了無數(shù)的挫折與嘲笑，但是韋斯特博士仍堅持不懈朝著目標前進。1975年，他的實驗室因某起騙局而被迫關(guān)閉，就在此時一個略顯神經(jīng)質(zhì)的女人朱迪思·溫斯黛德（萊亞·吉斯特德 Rya Kihlstedt 飾）被送到實驗室。她之前因傷而擁有了超能力，而其看似貨真價實的超能力迅速令見多識廣的科學家們大為折服。在這一過程中，朱迪思的能力不斷加強，甚至已經(jīng)到了失控的程度。　　這已遠遠超出了超能力的范疇，謎團背后惡魔的身影時隱時現(xiàn)……

拳擊手大卓因意外受傷告別了擂臺，在小區(qū)當了一個保安。在照顧患有癡呆癥父親的過程中，大卓漸漸理解了父親多年來對他的愛，父子間童年時的心結(jié)被解開。為彌補父親曾經(jīng)的遺憾，大卓重拾信心，再一次站到了擂臺之上。

　　路易、丹和Kelliah三名學生在一個最佳法國商業(yè)學校進行了培訓,以使他們成為明天的精英階層的決心……