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　　德高望重的亞歷山大（讓·雷諾 Jean Reno 飾）多年來一直是米其林餐廳的三星主廚，但是近來他的境遇卻屢現危機。當下的法國料理界正是”分子料理”風靡，傳統料理日漸衰落的時代，亞歷山大所堅持的傳統料理很有可能會在即將到來的星級評審中落敗，餐廳的小開更是翹首以盼可以就此炒了他。正當亞歷山大焦頭爛額之時，一名名不見經傳的小廚師杰克（邁克爾·揚 Micha?l Youn 飾）出現了，杰克是亞歷山大食譜的忠實追隨者，卻因對料理的狂熱固執屢次失業，只好在養老院找了份油漆工作。一個偶然的機會，亞歷山大讓杰克到他的餐廳實習，杰克與生俱來的料理天分和另辟蹊徑的烹調創意令亞歷山大大為賞識，很快成為其左右手。星級評審越來越近，兩位傳統烹飪大師的合作能否在挑剔的”分子料理”派面前力挽狂瀾呢？

　　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，大面積搶奪生存資源的惡性事件在城市不斷發生，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。社恐障礙的天文學自由撰稿人孫煬與素未謀面的廢柴鄰居陳暮被迫結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。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，并在殘酷的災難面前逐漸發現了生命的意義……

　　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.

　　影片生動展現了墨西哥傳奇女畫家弗里達·卡羅的童年生活。好奇心旺盛的弗里達整天和妹妹玩耍，和鄰居家的狗做朋友，爬樹，在小鎮上奔跑，當她擁有人生中的第一本筆記本，就迫不及待的上面涂滿色彩斑斕的圖畫和想法。小兒麻痹癥讓她臥床不起，但小弗里達毫不退縮，一旦康復，她就會重返街頭，展現她旺盛的生命力。