宫廷怨史

　　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.

　　2012韩国电影《无情的城市》堪称“韩国版《撞车》”，以9个人物为中心，讲述他们在24小时内发生的连环悲剧。李基英在片中饰演一位放高利贷的放债人，他放贷给面临破产危机的金大宇(金石勋饰)，在金大宇没能力偿还高利贷后李基英就以此为借口威胁金大宇说要摘除他的脏器。特别是李基英在杀死自己的妻子后，当他被指定为嫌疑人接受调查时面不改色、处变不惊、泰然处之的演技表现，令人感到毛骨悚然。

　　突尼斯导演考塞尔·本·哈尼亚将把巴勒斯坦六岁女童欣德·拉贾布的悲剧搬上银幕。2024年1月29日，欣德乘坐的车辆在加沙遭以色列军队袭击，她被困车中通过电话绝望求救，12天后被发现与家人一同遇难。影片将追溯这通生死未卜的求救通话背后，一个幼小生命在战争废墟中的最后时刻。                        

　　三年前的8月31日，“侵略者”巨大的母舰突如其来地降临在东京，眼看这个世界即将迎来末日。　　自此之后，绝望渐渐地融入了日常生活；大大的飞碟盘旋于空中，今天也依然不变地持续环绕着世界。而在还没有来到世界末日的此刻，小山门出、中川凰兰这两个高中女生的青春时代才正要展开。