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无法磨灭

　　西雅图发生一宗商店杀人案，曾被告谋杀亲妻的法医大卫前往勘验。 无意中却在凶案现场发现与妻子遭谋害时的相同线索，于是他决定展开调查。 然而调查工作始终毫无展获，直到他在募款晚会中结识一位美丽的神经学教授玛莎。 玛莎正研究某种特殊配方药剂，可将老鼠的记忆力进行移植。 这使得大卫突发其想，偷走药剂并将死者的记忆力注入自己体内进行人体试验，好一睹凶案经过，找出凶嫌破案。　　就在大卫一心想帮助警方破案的同时，凶嫌却在与警方对峙时中枪身亡。 失去唯一线索的大卫，只能借用已死凶嫌的记忆找出下一步线索。 原以为到此即将结束的凶案及往日冤屈，却在大卫亲身体验已死凶嫌的记忆过程中全面翻转。 他发现了攸关自身的天大谎言…

柔情挚我

她离开丈夫与儿子，也离开稳定的律师工作，在泳池、露天咖啡厅与私人公寓自在游走。以写作寄托生活，对儿子的爱未减半分，与丈夫也亲如挚友，直到那日，她向丈夫吐露与女性的亲密关系，完美生活旋即化为一场幻梦。在失去监护权后，她不得不在机构间穿梭，为了见儿子一面奋力一搏，却不知这样的困境，何时能走到尽头？

黑天鹅1942

 故事背景设定在16世纪的英国，海盗首领莫根船长（拉尔德·克雷加 Laird Cregar 饰）受到国王查理的特赦，并被任命为牙买加总督。一位年轻而勇敢、机智而英俊的年轻人沃林（泰隆·鲍华 Tyrone Power 饰）决定跟随莫根船长前往牙买加。然而，莫根过去的下属、狡猾而残忍的里奇船长（乔治·桑德斯 George Sanders 饰）却拒绝接受莫根的领导，继续在海上进行抢劫商船的行为。为了消灭海盗，沃林率领船队出海，在航行途中偶然与里奇的“黑天鹅号”，并和其他两艘船发生了遭遇战。面临险境，沃林不得不机智地假装前来投降并投靠里奇。通过巧妙周旋和激烈战斗，里奇最终受到了惩罚，他的“黑天鹅号”彻底被摧毁。与此同时，贵族小姐玛格丽特（玛琳·奥哈拉 Maureen O'Hara 饰）对沃林从厌恶逐渐转变为敬佩，最终产生了爱慕之情，展开了一场曲折而离奇的爱情故事。

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　　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.

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