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　　阿里（福里斯特·惠特克 Forest Whitaker 饰）和母亲是从曾经惨绝人寰的种族屠杀中幸免于难的幸存者，虽然如今的他已然出人头地成为了开普敦警局重案组的负责人，但儿时充满了血腥和恐惧的回忆依然沉淀在他的内心之中，阴影挥之不去。　　布莱恩（奥兰多·布鲁姆 Orlando Bloom 饰）是阿里的下属，他的家族成员曾经是种族隔离活动中的激进分子，不过这并没能够影响到他和阿里之间的信任和友谊。一连串凶杀案的发生和一种新型毒品的出现将城市推到了风口浪尖，直到这时，肩负着巨大压力的阿里才发现，那些他以为已经成为过去的事情，其实并没有真正的过去，也永远都不会过去。

 三谷幸喜自编自导。大富豪的妻子须绪美突然失踪，在得知她失踪后，在丈夫居住的豪宅集结的是爱过她的5个男人。但是他们所说的须绪美，无论是外表还是性格，都像是换了一个人。那么，到底须绪美的真面目是什么呢？

　　这是一部关于股票交易的影片，处处流露着金钱和欲望，一个草根凤凰男逆袭的故事。男主出生并成长在印度的一个小山村里。男主一心梦想前往孟买，去为自己的偶像（一位金融大鳄）去打工。金融大鳄亦是贫寒出身但却成功逆袭的典范。男一号发誓要成为像该金融大鳄一样的成功男士。男一号凭借自己 的努力和对机遇的掌控，在一年时间内，成为该金融大鳄最得力的助手。一时间，宾利，私人飞机，游艇都已是囊中之物；顺便，男一号再抱得美人归。然而，一切的成功都来的太突然。男一号殊不知自己只不过是金融大鳄的傀儡。而漂亮的女友也只不过是金融大鳄的情妇而已。摆在男一号面前有两条路。是接受金融大鳄所给的上亿支票继续为奴，还是推倒金融大鳄，自己彻底翻身？

　　一次演奏会上，小提琴家瑞安（莱斯利•尼尔森 Leslie Nielsen 饰）邂逅了美艳妇人劳伦（凯丽•勒布克 Kelly LeBrock 饰），劳伦对他大抛媚眼，吓得瑞安不知所措。联合国秘书长罗伯特将到哥伦比亚作反恐演讲，劳伦的丈夫希宾负责安排一切。这天瑞安收到了劳伦的邀请，并注明如果他不前来她将自杀。揣揣不安的瑞安如约来到了劳伦的别墅，却发现希宾早已倒地身亡。突然，一名独眼独臂独腿的男人出现将瑞安击晕了。　　当瑞安醒来后，他已被警察抓了起来，荒谬的是，瑞安谋杀希宾的罪名成立了。尽管他一再分辩，但他还是被押往监狱。途中囚车意外翻下了山崖，大难不死的瑞安开始了亡命天涯，他一方面要逃避追捕，一方面要设法找证据还自己一个清白！

在一场毁灭性的飓风中，一个沿海小镇正奋力对抗大自然的愤怒以及鲨鱼的袭击。在倾盆大雨、飞散的残骸和伸手不见五指的黑暗中，他们团结一心，勇敢面对致命的掠食者，努力在风暴中生存下来。

　　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.