性和改革

 为纪念逝世的奶奶，许久未见的堂兄弟大卫与班吉相约前往波兰参加导览团，也顺道探访奶奶的老家。一路上，班吉有话直说、率性风趣的性格迅速与同团人士拉近距离，令木讷拘谨的大卫既焦虑又羡慕，压抑已久的情绪日益沸腾。然而，随着旅途种种安排不断挑动班吉的敏感神经，他的狂放不羁似乎逐渐走向失序，大卫试图息事宁人，但内心的不安却席卷而来。这趟寻根之旅，能否解决彼此心底难以言说的痛楚？

　　故事背景设置在残酷的娱乐圈内，这个充斥着浮华、魅影、聚光灯的幕后。渐渐褪色的电影天后Shanaya求助于黑魔法来阻扰平步青云的影坛新星Sanjana，因为Sanjana已不择手段地篡夺了她曾经的位置。无情的Sanjana还利用她的爱人Aditya对付她，而Aditya当初和她在一起，只不过是把她当成一颗棋子助自己事业一臂之力。Aditya爱上了Sanjana并发誓会保护她，然而此时的Shanaya已成为一个疯狂的魔鬼，她誓要耗尽他们所有人的生命。

　　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.

 哈利（ Art Carney 饰）是个退休教师，终其一生都在为妻女奋斗，住在纽约上西区的他，一直没有为自己追求什么，当政府为了兴建停车场而决定拆除哈利的房子，他打包行李带着他最忠心的好友 Tonto 一同展开了一场跨越美国的旅程，他沿途拜访子女与多年好友，也因此结识了许多新朋友...本片由 Paul Mazursky 执导，获得1974年奥斯卡最佳男主角与金球奖喜剧音乐类影片最佳男主角。