味2021

　　A hit and run of an 18 year old girl becomes the hub of a wheel that sets into motion many a spoke - a journalist , a raging mother, a cop and a system all caught in an ethical dilemma. Questions raised only to realise that truth is rarely pure and never simple.

 又是一个平静的日子，内裤爱好者八宝斋（永井一郎 饰）四面出击，惹得乱马（山口勝平 饰）、小茜、良牙（山寺宏一 饰）、珊璞（佐久間レイ 饰）等人纷纷加入进来，在镇上惹出巨大的骚动。正当众人闹得不可开交之时，一头裹挟着黑色杀气的大象突然袭来。它和美丽的主人向八宝斋发起攻击。与此同时，天空阴云密布，一艘巨船出现在空中。他们是来自中国内地寝昆仑的七福道神，这群神秘之人不仅抢走骑象少女带来的奥义经卷，还虏走了小茜。乱马一众不堪就范，决定启程前往中国……本片根据高桥留美子的漫画《乱马1/2》改编，系该动画的剧场版第一部。

　　影片的故事发生在波士顿，巴恩斯扮演的尼克是一位意大利裔的美国年轻人，踌躇满志的他加入波士顿黑手党，决心开创一番事业，却发现这个犯罪组织早已不复昔日之勇。　　于是尼克背着他的老板（《落水狗》、《坏中尉》男星哈威·凯特尔饰），自立门户，扩张版图，希望重塑往昔的辉煌。一手金钱，一手美人（莉顿·梅斯特饰），尼克完全不知道自己正走在危险的悬崖边。

　　公元22世纪，因为人口过度膨胀、过度开发、环境极度恶化、食物也消耗殆尽。人类想要存活下去，就必须要到宇宙中去寻找新的可以栖身的星球。因此制造了一艘当时最先进的太空飞船，去考察发现的一颗可能适宜人类生存的星球。罗伯逊（威廉·赫特 William Hurt  饰）一家被选中担负起了这次探索使命，他们将用10年的时间前往阿尔法星球。可是，这次担负起全人类命运的任务却有反对的声音，部分邪恶势力妄图阻止这次任务。所以，当罗伯逊一家驾驶太空船刚进入太空的预定轨道时，反对派史密斯博士暗中进行破坏，导致飞船脱离的正常的轨道迫降到了一颗不知名的星球上。飞船上邪恶势力的阻挠，不知名星球上的种种危机，如何才能重新设定新的航线……各种问题困惑着罗伯逊一家，他们真的就此迷失太空，无法到达目的地了吗？人类的命运将何去何从？

　　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！

　　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.