天蝎座之夜4

　　在完全印度文化的背景下，女主安努舒卡·莎玛试过了杀人的公路惊悚片和与鬼魂相关的喜剧片后，在她制片的第三部作品中讲了一个西方恶魔的故事。　　从宗教势力的追捕中侥幸逃生的恶魔之女，在母亲的保护下，在山林中活到二十几岁。母亲去世后，女孩走进城市，被善良内向的男人收留。　　这是一个异类不惜付出一切渴望融入人类生活，渴望爱情的故事。联想到所有宗教都奉行的五花八门的女性禁忌，联想到女孩的母亲是因为被强迫才怀上了她，不禁感叹:也许所有女人都是主流社会眼中的恶魔。因为爱，女人能拥有摧毁一切的力量;因为爱，女人能放下一切仇恨;因为爱，女人能牺牲一切，包括自己。世界就是被这样的恶魔支撑着的。想尽办法把她们赶尽杀绝的人，和她们自己，谁是真正的恶魔?作为低成本独立制片的恐怖电影，声效化妆场景什么的，都没什么毛病，都在及格线以上。不过如果不像我一样对故事这么煽情，观众应该会觉得故事太单薄，不够刺激。一些观众群体可能会觉得不太舒服。毕竟在这部电影中，心中有爱的恶魔之女不是真的恶魔，那些站在正义一方的驱魔人才是。

　　在顺化的陶瓷马赛克工艺世家中，心爱的长孙离奇死亡，使梅比奇求助于「灵猫」复活孙子，没想到恶鬼也随之而来，开始发生一连串噩梦般的神秘事件…。

　　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.

　　美国德州一所高中，以布莱德利（贾斯廷·阿诺德 Justin Arnold 饰）为首的一众男女学生风生水起，横行霸道，经常以欺负人为乐趣。印度裔学生莱比（Vincent Silochan 饰）、瘦小的戴恩（马克·多纳托 Marc Donato 饰）和有些内向自闭的女孩艾米莉（林德赛·西德尔 Lindsay Seidel 饰）等人更是他们优先欺负的对象。学校的状况已然如此，与亲人的关系又分外冷淡和紧张，戴恩他们的生活看不到一点儿希望。　　8个月前，戴恩的叔叔去世，留给他一座偌大的农场作遗产。饱受欺负且试图自杀的他找到和自己同病相怜的几个人，他们决定把学校的小霸王们请到举行派对，在劲歌热舞之中展开准备已久的血腥复仇……