腐花之雨

从他母亲的歌声到他与歌利亚的冲突，大卫从卑微的牧羊人到受膏的国王的旅程考验了信仰、勇气和爱的极限，最终在一场争夺王国灵魂的战斗中达到高潮。

　　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.

　　「人可生如蚁而美如神」：一班裁制亮丽戏服的中年裁缝慨叹自己生如蚁，一名奥斯卡导演拍出她们美如神的生命。导演邀约一众他热爱的演员，重塑一家高级裁缝工作室色彩斑斓、五味集陈的过往，追忆70年代一班坚毅温柔的女裁缝的故事：表面盛势凌人却细腻体贴的老板、善良却抑郁的妹妹拍档、单纯的寡妇和她的小儿子、偏爱小鲜肉的姨姨、被家暴的妻子、昔日美艳的舞者、逃避通缉的少女⋯⋯一群日常女子抛开小我、互相照顾，照亮平凡生活中超越自我的不平凡，展现她们的独立、爱欲、挣扎和力量。意大利金像奖观众人次最高奖意大利银丝带奖年度电影

　　德国男星肯·杜肯自导自演的惊悚片处女作，精神创伤的精英战士在前往柏林探望女儿的途中搭载了一名面善的拦车者，却没料到后者正酝酿着一起柏林恐怖袭击。伴随多次视角转换和对善恶问题的拷问，在逐步揭开极端的意识形态深渊的同时，两名主角最终将故事引向意外结局。

　　小女孩Aurora(Sloan)去寻求邻居(米科尔森)的帮助：她相信家人被住在自己床底下的一个妖怪吃掉了，而这个邻居恰巧是训练有素的杀手，并且确信Aurora的父母是被一群来杀自己的人给误杀，于是，杀手的第一要务变成了保护小女孩的安全，两人一起上路，并肩面对自身的恶魔。

　　20世纪50、60年代，亨利·韦斯特博士（威廉·麦鲍瑟 William Mapother 饰）创建了灵学实验室阿提克斯研究所，针对超能力、透视、读心术、隔空取物等边缘学科展开研究。虽然遭遇了无数的挫折与嘲笑，但是韦斯特博士仍坚持不懈朝着目标前进。1975年，他的实验室因某起骗局而被迫关闭，就在此时一个略显神经质的女人朱迪思·温斯黛德（莱亚·吉斯特德 Rya Kihlstedt 饰）被送到实验室。她之前因伤而拥有了超能力，而其看似货真价实的超能力迅速令见多识广的科学家们大为折服。在这一过程中，朱迪思的能力不断加强，甚至已经到了失控的程度。　　这已远远超出了超能力的范畴，谜团背后恶魔的身影时隐时现……