绿帽子 (2005)

妖狐传

　　周兴商灭时期，神都战神拓跋羽带回一个九霄灵狐，关押在府内。此后神都屡屡出现悬案，悬案中的死者均是神都极美的女子，神都城内人心惶惶。　　为了平息此事，战神悬赏千两查找与案子相关的线索，降魔师主动请缨。降魔师的出现让真相逐渐浮出水面，大家在降魔师的引导下将目光放在了战神带回的女子小九身上，并大胆质疑小九是妖，全神都为之震动。战神带回的女子虽是九霄灵狐，但因其所吸人灵不足只算得上半妖。神都女子之死表面都出自她手而实际上都与她无关。　　真凶其实是战神拓跋羽，九霄灵狐则是他最后一个猎杀对象，他杀四十九名美艳女子是为了集齐四十九个美艳女子的阴灵，然后与九霄灵狐的妖灵一同炼化使自己早日修成大成，不料最后被降魔师识破，战神无法继续隐藏，只能兔死狗烹与降魔师进行对抗，降魔师不敌败下阵来，眼看战神即将修成大成，降魔师携手九霄灵狐将拓跋羽治服。降魔师为使一方安宁，收走九霄灵狐一缕灵魄让别有用心之人无法借由九霄灵狐修害人之法术。

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　　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.

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