赌城快活女

 设定在1999年，以伪纪录片形式，聚焦那些看似普通、欢乐的家庭录像带中发现的可怕事件和“鬼影”。

　　安娜·帕克（凯特·法兰奇 Kate French 饰）是一个美丽的女作家，当下她正为新书做最后的冲刺，可是担任出版编辑的男友保罗·瓦格纳（史蒂文·布兰德 Steve Brand 饰）却提出了较为尖刻的修改意见。心情颇有些低落的安娜找不到灵感，创作陷入僵局。为了帮她完成工作，保罗将安娜带到一处位于沙漠中央的别墅进行创作，不过他突然有事离开，只留下安娜和一条狗。到了夜晚，安娜惊讶地发现有一个恐怖的人逡巡在别墅附近。她尝试着向保罗求助，然而无法得到有效回应。　　2012-3-2，一组奇怪的数字，让安娜陷入前所未有的恐惧之中。而在无尽的恐慌中，她终于发现了可怕的秘密……

　　品性憨直，风趣幽默，农村吃百家饭长大的孤儿石二狗，在城市打工意外获得彩票大奖五百万，之后，他风风火火的回到老家，借着酒劲给乡亲们发钱，并且还想凭这五百万娶村长的女儿石金凤，但是却遭到石金凤的嘲笑，于是他发奋要为老家人民做点大事——修路，将修路的工程包给了金凤城里的男朋友胡大光，以这样显示他的大度并期望博得金凤的欢喜，可是却由于经验的缺失和文化知识的不足，被胡大光给蒙混了，手上的钱都让胡大光骗走了，连答应给村里修小学的钱也被骗的一光二净，二狗又成了一个身无分文的穷光蛋。 二狗有钱的时候，在众多人中招聘了韩美华作为村里学校的老师，现在二狗没钱了，本以为韩美华会离开石头村，但是由于二狗的善良和执着，早已深深的打动了美丽聪明的城里女孩韩美华。韩美华利用自己的经验和智慧联手以前一直瞧不起二狗的村民们，为二狗打赢了官司。最后在韩美华的指引和村民们的帮助下，石二狗凭借自己坚韧的毅力，白手起家，带领百姓发家致富开创了崭新的事业。

　　前伞兵军官朱里安•塔维尼（Maurice Ronet 饰）退役后在一家军火公司上班，期间他和老板西蒙•卡瑞拉（Jean Wall 饰）的妻子弗洛伦丝（Jeanne Moreau 饰）陷入热恋。为了扫清障碍，他和情妇制定了一条看似天衣无缝的谋杀计划。计划起初进展顺利，但在刺杀之后却因细微的差错偏离当初的设想，朱里安更被困在大楼的电梯之中。　　所谓祸不单行，一对青年男女偷走了朱里安的车，事态开始朝着混乱的方向发展……　　本片为左岸派元老路易•马勒的长片处女作，荣获1957年路易•德吕克奖

　　故事背景设置在不远的未来世界，在414区的人型机器人殖民地中，私家侦探大卫·卡迈克尔(皮尔斯饰)受雇于痴迷商业世界的财阀马龙·维特(费米尔饰)去寻找后者叛逆的女儿。卡迈克尔需要与高度智能的机器人(鲁茨饰)通力合作，而在这个过程中，关于414区和“机器人之城”起源的罪行也浮出了水面。

　　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.