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19 十九

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小说家李唐（张本煜 饰）接到昔日恋人高丽（王佳佳 饰）的电话，被告知她要来他所在的城市出差三天。在这三天里，他们一起回到了过去，体验了当下，演绎了未来。在他们即将告别时，高丽带着李唐来到玄武湖，她讲述起一件往事，李唐对此错愕无言，恍然间不知当下是何时……

灵雀密语

本片以乡村考古为背景，讲述少女露西与母亲卡罗琳重返家族故地时，意外揭开一段被岁月掩埋的亲情谜团。露西在两只神秘灵雀的指引下，与好友化身“小侦探”，通过老宅残片、褪色信件与家族旧物，逐步拼凑出曾祖母时代因战乱而断裂的情感纽带。这部别致的定格动画采用手工剪纸方式制作，创作团队用2000个纸偶和826个布景拍摄，堪称完成了一项不可能的工作。片中既有细腻舒缓的情绪铺陈，也不乏快速剪辑的惊险片段。导演安东尼·兰席奥以一段层层递进的冒险旅程为载体，娓娓道来几代人之间的情感牵绊，描绘出一部充满诗意、幽默和温情的动画佳作。

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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.