邻居的妻子

　　公元794年，日本桓武天皇时期，京都长冈被其胞弟早良亲王怨灵诅咒，天灾人祸不断。桓武天皇被迫迁都平安京，由此开启四百年平安时代序幕。彼时权贵内部斗争激烈，人民生活疾苦，世间因此怨灵丛生，人、鬼与怪物屏息同栖。隶属于宫廷阴阳寮的阴阳师们，作为平衡天、地、人、鬼间矛盾的存在，自此活跃在历史舞台上，其中最为耀眼的便是身世成谜的安倍晴明（野村万斋 饰）。右近卫中将源博雅（伊藤英明 饰）受托拜访安倍晴明，被所目睹的奇异景象及晴明的个人魅力深深折服；晴明亦被博雅正直的品德吸引。故事便从两人宿命相识，结下珍贵情谊开始。　　宫廷内近来异事频发。左大臣藤原师辅之女诞下敦平亲王，婴儿降世却身负诅咒。晴明招来蜜虫（今井绘理子 饰）和神秘女子青音（小泉今日子 饰），与博雅一同化解恶咒，却反遭诬陷。原来一切皆是阴阳头道尊（真田广之 饰）所为。他利用左右大臣间矛盾与后妃间争宠频生事端，更欲召唤出150年前的最强怨灵早良亲王，将平安京彻底颠覆……　　影片根据梦枕貘《阴阳师》系列小说改编。

　　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.

　　每个火车司机在职业生涯中会撞死20多人，这些死者通常是因为寻死、失误、酒醉或仅仅是一不小心而丧生。伊利亚是一名即将退休的火车司机，他共撞死了28人。他19岁的养子西玛继承了他的工作，西玛非常担心自己也会撞死人，而老司机们都安慰他说，一周内就会发生，但是几周过去后，没有发生一起撞人事故，而这也使得他精神极度紧绷。伊利亚为了帮助他，找到了许多想要自杀的人，让他们跳到车轨上自杀，但是最终这些人都放弃了自杀的念头。无奈之下，伊利亚自己躺在了车轨上想用自身的死来拯救西玛…

 麦克墨菲（杰克·尼科尔森 Jack Nicholson 饰）为了逃避监狱里的强制劳动，装作精神异常，被送进了精神病院，他的到来，给死气沉沉的精神病院带来了剧烈的冲击。 麦克要求看棒球比赛的电视转播，挑战了医院严格的管理制度，受到护士长拉契特（路易丝·弗莱彻 Louise Fletcher 饰）的百般阻挠；麦克带领病人出海捕鱼，振奋了他们的精神，却让院方头痛不已。院方为了惩处麦克胆大妄为、屡犯院规，决定将他永远留在疯人院。生性自由的麦克再也无法忍受疯人院的生活，他联合病友，高大的印第安人“酋长”，开始自己的计划：飞越疯人院。 本片获1975年第48届奥斯卡最佳影片，最佳男、女主角，最佳导演和最佳改编剧本五项大奖。主人公“不自由，毋宁死”的精神在当今社会仍有很大的现实意义。