嘘!禁止想象

an experimental work by the Negu Collective, all of them former students of the ESCAC in Barcelona.

影片改编自朝仓霞同名小说，讲述了35年后重逢的中学同学青砥健（堺雅人 饰）和须藤叶子（井川遥 饰），彼此都是单身，积累了各种各样人生经验的两人意气相投，填补了自中学以来离别的35年时光，心灵相通的故事。

　　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.

　　阳光明媚的日子里，约翰（丹尼尔·佐瓦特 Daniel Zovatto 饰）和凯蒂（邦妮·戴尼森 Bonnie Dennison 饰）、麦特（克里斯·克罗伊 Chris Conroy 饰）、齐克（格里芬·纽曼 Griffin Newman 饰）、西蒙（约翰尼·奥希尼 Jonny Orsini 饰）和黛比（Mackenzie Rosman 饰）等五名好友，驱车来到一个毗邻湖边的僻静所在进行他们毕业前的纪念派对。他们划着小船来到湖中央，曾经有着恐怖记忆的约翰对这片水域颇多忌惮，但是他胆大妄为的伙伴们则竞相跳入水中，享受戏水的快乐时光。谁知好景不长，先是小船遭到猛烈碰撞，接着黛比被一条怪鱼咬伤致死。　　年轻人的噩梦由此展开，他们的磨难还未就此结束，嗜血猎手渐次向他们逼近……