天使禁戀

　　以提利昂·克萊頓（Steve Hanks 飾）為首的美國軍方人員進行著一項秘密計劃，名為“思緒膨脹”計劃，這項計劃掌握著各種操控天氣的秘訣。一個小組希望利用這個計劃改變世界，例如為干旱地區帶來降雨。但意想不到的效果產生了，這個機器正悄然毀滅著美國的城市...

　　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.

　　故事發生在英格蘭北部的紐卡斯爾，因為遭遇了次貸危機，瑞奇（克里斯·希欽 Kris Hitchen 飾）不僅丟掉了工作，還背負上了巨額的債務。為了維持生計，瑞奇貸款買了一輛小貨車，準備靠送貨來開啟事業的第二春，哪知道他這一沒有經過思考的舉動給整個家庭都帶來了無法挽回的傷害 。　　瑞奇的妻子艾比（黛比·哈尼伍德 Debbie Honeywood 飾）是一名家政工，專門為殘疾人和老人服務，如今，她不得不依靠公交車往返于不同的雇主家中，這令她感到非常的疲憊。為了償還貨車的貸款，瑞奇不得不將更多的時間花費在工作上，這令他們的大兒子塞布（瑞斯·斯通 Rhys Stone 飾）感到備受冷落。

　　卡馬爾格，法國——內吉瑪正在努力訓練，以贏得當地的斗牛比賽。然而，在一次慶祝活動后，她被牛襲擊，開始注意到一些令人不安的變化。與此同時，一頭失控的公牛在社區中橫行，導致年輕男子接連喪命，令居民們感到恐慌。