丈夫的戶外生活

AUNTY當網紅

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.

愛情鳥的自救

　　一對情侶（伊薩·雷和庫梅爾·南賈尼飾）正在互訴衷腸，結果被無意中卷入了一場謀殺迷局。洗刷罪名的過程極端又滑稽，他們必須挺過這一夜，以保住兩人的戀情和性命。

北京猿人

　　侵華戰爭時期，日本人將掠得的北京猿人頭骨偷運回國，途中沉沒，成為一樁疑案。當年日本人將頭骨化石偷運回國，隱藏幾十年后，在和平環境下重新進行研究。他們將頭骨化石中的DNA殘片提取出來，進行培育，然后送入太空，據說這樣便可以憑借太空中的粒子幅射，使其蘊育成熟。不料，載著北京猿人胚胎的飛船失事，墜入海島，而北京猿人卻成功地誕生了。　　而王祖賢扮演的中國美麗女間諜的使命就是將北京猿人偷運回國，從此便和日本科學家展開了明爭暗斗。最后，雙方不分輸贏，而是達成了共識：北京猿人不是任何一國的財富，他們屬于大自然。于是，猿人一家三口和一只同樣由基因技術復制出來的猛瑪象被放歸了自然。

LAST MAN-全盲搜查官- FAKE／TRUTH

　　全盲的FBI特別搜查官皆實廣見（福山雅治 飾）被稱為“終結一切案件的最后王牌”。他自日本研修返美后，警視廳搜查一課的護道心太朗（大泉洋 飾）前往美國受訓，兩人在華盛頓與紐約繼續加深“無敵搭檔”的默契。半年后心太朗歸國，兩人再次分隔兩地。　　2025年，皆實因電視節目回到日本，卻遭遇電視臺被全副武裝的恐怖分子占領。他與主播播摩美咲（松本若菜 飾）、首相五之橋義實（吉田鋼太郎 飾）等人被劫持，對方威脅若拿不出10億美元贖金，將在東京引爆炸彈，引爆前所未有的危機。得知皆實被囚的心太朗火速趕往現場，卻發現負責接待皆實的佐久良（吉田羊 飾）已隱藏在內部——一場跨國搭檔再度攜手的極限救援正式拉開序幕。