恋之欲室

两名警察在出警处理一桩家庭纠纷时，不慎酿成了一起枪击意外。为了避免成为舆论的众矢之的，他们选择联手掩盖真相。随着事态逐渐失控，他们才惊觉——监视他们的，远不止现场的摄像头…

　　大卫·斯雷德(《汉尼拔》)将为米高梅执导新片[黑暗收割](Dark Harvest，暂译)。影片根据同名恐怖小说改编，迈克尔·吉里奥([龙与地下城])撰写剧本。故事发生在1963年的万圣节，围绕着一个叫“十月男孩”展开。每年万圣节，他都会手拿屠刀，从玉米地里爬起来，走向小镇。无论是猎人还是猎物，“十月男孩”都是一年一度生死仪式的奖品。皮特知道，杀死“十月男孩”是他逃离这个穷途末路的小镇的唯一机会。他愿意冒着生命危险去赢得胜利。但在夜晚结束之前，皮特将发现“十月男孩”可怕的真正秘密。

 故事背景设定在1970年，影片对1922年同名的失传无声电影进行了重新演绎。一个绝望的年轻人与一个精神失常的医生达成了一项黑暗的交易，他将自己的母亲作为实验对象，供这位医生进行其扭曲的实验。

　　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.