末路姐妹花

　　胡家庄年味渐淡，寒暑异常，舞狮少年罗川跳脱飞扬，异想天开，梦想把舞狮技艺发扬光大，却常常弄巧成拙，所到之处鸡飞狗跳，被村民视为“扫把星”，是村长胡长礼眼中的“危险分子”。年兽小五意外降临人间，大闹村庄，勾走了传家宝——狮头。罗川为找回狮头，和下凡捉年兽的鼠仙阿细相识，两人逐渐发现年兽并不可怕，可以和人类做朋友，但胡长礼爱村心切，被噬灵妖蛊惑，遁入疯魔，制造了一场针对年兽的阴谋，最终罗川和阿细联合村民，打败了噬灵妖，唤醒了胡长礼，胡家庄重归热闹，众人欢欢喜喜迎接春节到来。

　　A portrait of actress Eleonora Duse.

“月读”是希望与梦想交会的虚拟空间，而舞台幕布将缓缓升起，见证几位少女在此谱写短暂却珍贵的相遇篇章。                                                                      　　不久的未来……                                                                      　　东京的 17 岁高中生酒寄彩叶过着非常忙碌的生活，努力在打工和学业之间寻找平衡。她的纾压方式是观看很有人气的月见八千代直播，八千代管理名为“月读”的线上虚拟空间。                                                                      　　彩叶时常光顾月读，在那里可以体验不同的人生，自由挥洒创意。她就靠着支持八千代度过空闲时间，还会玩战斗游戏赚一点外快。有一天，在回家路上，彩叶发现一根电线杆闪耀着奇异光芒，没想到电线杆里竟然凭空冒出一个可爱的宝宝。彩叶没办法随手抛弃宝宝，只好把她抱回家，眼睁睁看着她迅速长成一个跟自己同龄的少女。                                                                      　　“你是辉耀姬吗？”                                                                      　　这是你绝对不曾看过的辉耀姬物语。

　　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.

　　年轻貌美的美国科学家琳达（布丽·拉尔森 饰），被公司总裁葛根（唐纳·苏德兰 饰）派往印度销售她所培育的“9号稻米”。初次来到印度的琳达饱受文化冲击，还好有当地年轻官僚威廉的协助，让她可以在那边安心地边研究边销售。此时，她遇到一位因为缴不出学费而辍学的大学生罗杰（乌特卡什·安邦德卡尔 饰），两人在研究与争执过程当中陷入热恋，罗杰也帮她发现被派往印度的丑陋内幕……原来她想要帮助印度农民的研究成果，竟不知不觉地被无良的葛根滥用，即将对农民造成毁灭性的伤害…琳达该要如何阻止这场灾难？而她与罗杰的异国恋又将会开花结果吗？

朱恩（June）在哥哥去世后搬到意大利，寻求新的开始。在她的新精英学校里，她被詹姆斯（James）吸引，詹姆斯是个勇敢却危险的人，卷入了非法综合格斗（MMA）比赛，但她却开始和詹姆斯最好的朋友威尔（Will）约会，威尔是个完美的模范学生。然而，表象具有欺骗性，朱恩很快发现学校里的人都并非表面那样，每个人都隐藏着秘密。随着紧张局势加剧，隐藏的真相浮出水面，朱恩需要决定自己的心真正属于谁。