ナルミスト 大川成美

 影片改编自Samuel D. Hunter创作的同名戏剧，讲述在爱达荷州乡村一个破旧的公寓里，重达272公斤的英语教师查理（布兰登·费舍 饰）隐居避世，固执、坚决地要把自己吃死。查理在中年时期为了同性情人抛弃家人，但情人过世后因为悲伤和内疚暴饮暴食，并且尝试与17岁的女儿艾莉（萨迪·辛克 饰）修复关系。随着查理越来越接近不可避免的命运，他的朋友丽兹（周洪 饰），一个愤世嫉俗的无神论者护士，以及埃尔德·托马斯（泰·辛普金斯 饰），一个年轻的传教士都试图在查理身上找到能被拯救的意志，无论是肉体上还是精神上。然而，只有与查理关系疏远的女儿艾莉才能让他看到目前绝望状态之外的未来，艾莉虽然尖酸刻薄、充满仇恨、浑身是刺，查理却能在她身上找到最后一次赎罪的机会，甚至可能是一丝希望。

　　卢迪（凯内尔·穆德卢佐 Kornél Mundruczó 饰）从小就成长在孤儿院中，他刚一出生就被父母无情的抛弃了，从来都没有感受过亲情的滋味。17岁时，对父母的思念在卢迪的内心里愈演愈烈，他决定动身去寻找他们的踪迹。但很快，残酷的现实就让卢迪知道，他的存在对于他的亲人们来说或许并非一件好事。　　一次偶然中，卢迪得到了一次试镜的机会。导演被卢迪身上所散发出来的阴郁气质深深的吸引了，认为他就是扮演自己电影里角色的不二人选。可是造化弄人，导演并不知道，眼前的这个年轻人，正是他早些年间抛弃的儿子。

 影片改编自2022年的同名独立恐怖游戏。背景设定在名为“The Quiet Rapture”的末日之后，一名囚犯被迫深入血红色的海洋，驾驶一艘锈迹斑斑的微型潜艇搜寻残存的自然资源。

　　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.