Cheaters

　　《透明人与蝇男 》是由村山三男导演的特摄科幻电影。一个发现可以把人变成和苍蝇一样大小的药品的男人，开始对给自己安上战犯的罪的人复仇。某个物理学家为了从蝇男的恐怖中拯救人们决心成为透明人。

　　繁华的国际大都会香港闹市中心，口若悬河的洪家宝（陈百祥 饰）带着傻乎乎的小弟麦交（邵国华 饰）公然行窃，结果路上遭遇妙龄女郎嘉嘉（张艾嘉 饰）举报。虽然两人百般抵赖，但在最后关头漏了马脚，被警察关进监狱。令洪、麦意想不到的是，嘉嘉居然是监狱的辅导官，所谓冤家路窄，洪家宝真是窝了一肚子火。二人所在的牢房狱霸横行，为了逃出对方魔爪，他们不惜羞辱监狱长官。经过一段时间牢狱之灾，二人和狱中认识的伙伴冠仁（胡大为 饰）出狱。谁知他们死性不改，骗吃骗喝再度锒铛入狱，这次又撞上了有着一副好皮囊、爱装警察的小混混荣仔（张国荣 饰）。　　洪家宝大骂荣仔，意想不到的是荣仔的老姐居然就是洪的仇敌嘉嘉……

　　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.

　　一位陷入哀痛的女子，前往偏远的森林深处，希望在那找到慰藉。却遇到了一位陌生人向她注射了一种麻痹剂。随着麻痹剂逐渐侵蚀她的身体，她必须在全身神经系统完全瘫痪前逃跑、躲藏并为生存而战。

　　有个惊吓过度的小女孩在沙漠游走，唯一吐出的只有一个字：怪物！任何50年代恐怖片迷都会马上告诉你，她所指的”怪物”就是巨蚁，那是在当地核子试爆后的副产品。这些巨蚁非常有组织，嗜肉且体型巨大，约有8到20呎，它们群聚在洛杉矶的下水道系统，彷若一个巨大的蚂蚁园区，准备好要接管这个世界。要和这些怪物对抗的人类精英是新墨西哥警署探员詹姆斯惠特摩，联邦调查局代表詹姆斯亚尼斯，和一对由埃德蒙关恩和乔安妮威尔登所饰的父女档昆虫学家。

 西元2274年人类居住在由电脑控制的城市中，在这个城市中无优无虑，可自由毫无拘束的追求享乐；但到30岁时每一个人必须接受考验，一个探究永恒、重生的试炼……