女教師日記3 隱藏的性 女教師日記3 秘められぢ (1997)

無依之地

 2008年金融危機下，美國內華達州昂皮爾小鎮的重要經濟支柱石膏廠倒閉，人去鎮空，這里的郵政編碼也被取消。丈夫去世后，幾乎在在昂皮爾小鎮度過了一生的弗恩（弗蘭西斯·麥克多蒙德飾）無力獨撐生活。為了將生活成本壓到最低，她將簡陋的家當搬上了改裝后的廂式貨車，開始了一邊打工、一邊西行的公路生活。她在亞馬遜流水線上、在游樂園的咖啡廳里、在國家森林公園做臨時工。一路上，她和許多廂式貨車寄居者相遇、相識，彼此幫助，并締結了友誼。

老板和小可愛

最佳拍檔2：大顯神通

　　金剛（許冠杰 飾）成功降服白手襪之后，白手襪之兄黑手襪受黑手黨指派繼續交易鉆石并向金剛復仇，金剛與黑手襪的高級機器人大戰數合終于僥幸勝利，卻馬上又落入了牛牛、悠悠兄妹犯罪團伙的騙局，卷入銀行搶劫案成為嫌犯，金剛逃亡路上將拍檔光頭神探（麥嘉 飾）與何東詩（張艾嘉 飾）的婚禮攪得一塌糊涂。所幸光頭神探義字當先合力與金剛對抗牛牛、黑手襪，卻不料金剛再次被悠悠戲弄，光頭神探也只落得被嚴妻整治。最佳拍檔被牛牛團伙脅迫，不得不出面搶奪鉆石，而黑手襪方面再次出動高級機器人應戰，早有準備的金剛取出機器人特工隊，混戰一觸即發……　　本片是最佳拍檔系列的第二集。

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.