美好的危險丑聞

　　Ryan O'Neil是一位在戰斗中受傷后患有PTSD的退伍軍人，他懷孕的妻子斯蒂芬妮回到家中。她的哥哥托尼是一個腐敗的警察，她的丈夫一直在為這個國家服務，她一直在幫她。瑞恩和托尼從來都不喜歡對方，而托尼試圖干涉他們的婚姻，事情變得激烈起來。但是，當瑞恩在夜晚開始在他的房子里閃現出殺手，外星人和其他奇怪生物的閃光和幻影時，他不確定這是真的還是只在他腦海中。斯蒂芬妮已經和瑞恩在一起，對丈夫的行為深表擔憂。隨著歲月的流逝，瑞恩很快就會發現他的噩夢在他身上縈繞著什么邪惡的存在。

　　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.

　　一次偶然中，阿秋（吳耀漢 飾）和貝多芬（岑建勛 飾）結識了犯罪調查專家阿文（許冠文 飾），志同道合的三人成為了很好的朋友。然而阿秋和貝多芬的真實身份系大盜，兩人和阿文正邪不兩立，而阿文對此并不知情，三人的關系在搖搖欲墜之中維系著艱難的平衡。　　某日，阿文在商場里撞見了自己的妻子杜白莉（胡茵夢 飾）正在和珠寶富商阿楊（翁世杰 飾）約會，遭到了背叛的阿文感到十分憤怒，決定對阿楊進行報復。阿文駕駛著自己的機車要和阿楊的豪車一決高下，哪知道遭遇了車禍，不僅自己受傷，坐騎也報廢無法再騎，窘迫的時刻，阿秋和貝多芬及時出現，替阿文解了圍。

　　弱不禁風的男子Colin（哈利·米爾林 Harry Melling 飾）遇上英俊無比的摩托車俱樂部首領Ray（亞歷山大·斯卡斯加德 Alexander Skarsg?rd 飾），Ray將Colin收為他的submissive，并帶他走近一群古怪的酷兒摩托車手，過程中各種收割童貞。但隨著Colin深入Ray的那個充滿規則和神秘的世界，他開始質疑自己是否真正適合這種當全天候submissive的生活。他是真的找到了自己的使命，還是僅僅用一種“窒息”的人生換了另一種？