非常殘酷

那個人在想什么事情

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

開心勿語

　　梅家四姐妹父母早亡，多虧大姐大香（梅艷芳 飾）獨立經(jīng)營點心店，妹妹二香（柏安妮 飾）、三香（陳加玲 飾）和四香（袁潔瑩 飾）才能順利完成學(xué)業(yè)，出落成開朗可愛、美麗動人的大姑娘。三個妹妹吸引來無數(shù)的追求者，她們也各自找到了心儀之人。然而梅家有個不成文的規(guī)定，只有大姐出嫁后三個妹妹才能順序出嫁，偏偏大香不重儀表，脾氣又壞，男人們唯恐避之不及，這可愁壞了三個愁嫁的女孩。為了讓姐姐早日找到如意郎君，她們和各自的男友商量幫大香物色一個合適的對象。　　三好小男人曾灶才（曾志偉 飾）被女友愛絲（吳君如 飾）拋棄，傷心欲絕之時，他被三姐妹找來追求冰山美人大香……

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.

赤腳大仙

最后的日出

　　在未來，地球上所有的化石能源都被消耗殆盡，人類全面進入了太陽能時代。能源公司開始全面的開發(fā)和控制太陽，人類社會逐漸向完全依賴太陽能Ⅱ型文明邁進。　　但在一次人類科學(xué)無法探明的天體活動中，太陽突然消失了。整個世界陷入了黑暗的無政府狀態(tài)，大面積搶奪生存資源的惡性事件在城市不斷發(fā)生，富人乘坐宇宙飛船逃離到其他星球，普通人只能留在地球享受世界末日。社恐障礙的天文學(xué)自由撰稿人孫煬與素未謀面的廢柴鄰居陳暮被迫結(jié)伴共同踏上末日逃亡之旅，前往傳說中人類最后的庇護之所——第四區(qū)。一路上他們與形形色色的人匆匆相遇，見到了最殘酷的人性與最溫情的告別。在無數(shù)次的死里逃生之后，兩顆寂寞的心開始慢慢靠近，并在殘酷的災(zāi)難面前逐漸發(fā)現(xiàn)了生命的意義……