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 乔治（沃伦·比蒂 Warren Beatty 饰）是一名美容师，经过他那双神奇的手打理过后，所有的女人都会变得容光焕发。随着业务量的增长，女友吉尔（歌蒂·韩 Goldie Hawn 饰）鼓励乔治开设自己的美容院，可是，在这块寸土寸金的地方，想要拥有自己的一席之地谈何容易呢。乔治找到了生意人莱斯特（杰克·瓦尔登 Jack Warden 饰），想要说服他投资自己的美容院，而莱斯特并不知道的是，风流成性的乔治，不仅和自己的妻子有不清不楚的关系，甚至和他的女儿也走的很近。世界上哪有密不透风的墙呢，当吉尔得知了乔治的这些花边新闻后，还能够坚定地站在他身边支持他吗？

艾娃是一位受人欢迎的教师，她的丈夫是当地的市长。尽管他背叛了她的信任，她仍然计划支持他的竞选活动，因此她开始在当地的一个难民中心做志愿者。在这里，她与18岁的难民阿米尔亲近起来，他的诗歌才华深深吸引了她。然而，他们越走越近，她对局势的掌控就越少。这部关于禁忌之爱的戏剧《别叫我妈妈》让主角们面临道德考验，同时挑衅性地探讨了虚伪如何伪装成慷慨。充分利用了自己作为选角导演的经验，尼娜·克纳格从演员皮娅·蒂耶塔、克里斯托弗·约纳和塔雷克·扎亚特那里得到了出色的表现。

　　只是一场意外，却又超乎意外。驾车撞死一条狗，男子与妻女来到陌生车房。凭其义肢走动时的声响，车房工认出司机或是当年施酷刑的狱吏。仇人送上门，雪恨更待何时。然而，狱中受折磨时双眼被蒙，嫌疑犯是行刑者确实无误？从早到晚奔波一轮，找来几个狱友确认俘虏身份，痛苦回忆涌上心头。在无 垠沙漠等待把他活埋私了，有若在人性荒原等待果陀，替天行道又是否问心无愧？以悬疑惊栗布局，暗黑写实的人物故事来自巴纳希狱中亲见亲闻，将苛政、滥权、以暴易暴一一置于道德伦理的天秤上，丈量人性轻重；悲愤中不失幽默，连消带打贪污贿赂之风。一面金棕榈奖，绝非意外。

　　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.