藝妓：熱情如火的愛

　　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.

一名警察遇害身亡，查案的警員發現這與其雙胞胎兄弟及他們令人不安的過去有關，一場令人心驚膽戰的真相探查就此展開。

　　莫蘭（袁百梓卉 飾）擁有著一段悲慘的童年，很小的時候，她就失去了母親，然而莫蘭始終都不知道母親究竟為什么會死，這場悲劇成為了莫蘭內心里最大的謎團和黑洞。時間一年一年的就這樣過去，一轉眼莫蘭便已經長成了亭亭玉立的少女，只是，她從未放棄過想要調查當年事件真相的額念頭。　　尹正（林保怡 飾）是莫蘭的師叔，在泰國經營著一家按摩院。莫蘭千里迢迢遠赴泰國尋找尹正，想要借助他的力量開始調查。哪知道來到泰國后，莫蘭的身邊開始接二連三的發生科學無法解釋的詭異事件，甚至還發生了命案，而這一切都和母親當年的死因有著千絲萬縷的關聯。

　　「為什么大家討厭警察？」男孩詢問母親。身為警察的史黛芬妮，負責的卻是警察暴力與失職案件調查。2018年，一名青年隨親友來到巴黎參與街頭抗議，卻因警方開槍，導致永久性腦部損傷。家人提出指控，警方卻矢口否認，關鍵證據亦是不足。內外壓力夾攻之下，史黛芬妮仍奮力調查，調閱攝像頭比對、還原警員動線，越逼近真相之際，同僚的敵意也越發強烈??