艾曼妞2 爱的教育

　　知名画家创作的最后一幅作品“恶灵画像”后离奇死亡了，女设计师张琳和同伴早就听说过“恶灵画像”具有诅咒的传说----见者必死。强烈的猎奇心理驱使貌美性感的张琳走向了寻找“恶灵画像”的路上，在寻找的过程中不断遭遇了一系列灵异、诡异事件……身边同伴不断失踪、离奇死亡...... 张琳是否能在探秘的过程中活下来… 是否能够找到“恶灵画像”. 真相逐步揭开。

　　讲述了一群性格迥异的角色围绕一件罕见的美洲原住民文物展开激烈争夺的故事，在这件文物流入黑市后，一位怀揣梦想的腼腆女服务员（西德尼·斯维尼 Sydney Sweeney 饰）与一位渴望爱情的退伍军人（保罗·沃尔特·豪泽 Paul Walter Hauser 饰）联手，试图将其据为己有，却因此成为冷酷罪犯（埃里克·迪恩 Eric Dane 饰）的目标，而他正为一名西部古董商人（西蒙·雷克斯 Simon Rex 饰）效力。随着更多人卷入这场争斗，血雨腥风接踵而至。

 富有魅力的牧场主菲尔·伯班克（本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇 饰）让他周围的人又敬又怕。当他的兄弟将新婚妻子以及她的儿子带回家时，菲尔百般折磨他们，直到有一天，他发现自己对爱也存有一丝渴望。

　　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.