尸气逼人

选择之她·他

一个选择，两种人生轨迹。她的故事，还是他的真相？

林肯大战僵尸

　　19世纪，经历了影响深远的南北战争，美国终于迎来了新的时代。亚伯拉罕·林肯（比尔·奥伯斯特 Bill Oberst, JR 饰）接连取得与人类的胜利，却不得不面对新的敌人。他麾下一直部队在巡察途中遭遇活死人，三十人仅有一人幸存，但由于惊吓过度精神失常。北方政府怀疑这是南方的最新武器，于是计划派出一支12人的小分队深入敌后，救出被困的人员。勇猛无敌的林肯见识了活死人的威力，自告奋勇带部队向南方进发。在目标要塞，他们遭遇了数量庞大的活死人军团，这群怪物的残忍更远远超出他们的想象。　　死亡救援之旅漫长难熬，伟大的林肯总统能否带着他的子民逃出生天……

公寓2024

　　Following her mother’s death, manga artist Soriya travels to her ancestral home in Phnom Penh, with hopes of reconnecting with her distant family and using the visit as inspiration for her work. All goes well initially. Renting an apartment in Metta, a rundown Khmer Rouge-era housing complex, her visit to her maternal relatives finds her welcomed with open arms. But Soriya’s waking hours in the apartment and its surroundings are punctuated by terrifying, bloody visions, almost as though she were a conduit for horrors of the past wanting to seep into the present.　　Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea’s blood-chilling psychological horror explores a personal and political past through the present, transforming a characterful space into an insidious environment. Surrounded by modern high-rises, this decrepit structure, with its brutalist architecture and peeling surfaces, is a relic from a dark period in history whose painful memories it has absorbed. In tracing Soriya’s ominous journey back to her roots, Tenement hints at a necessary reckoning with Cambodia’s political past without overplaying its historical dimension. It’s an impressive work from a woefully underrepresented national cinema.

致我的青春

等待方舟

　　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.

飞越疯人院

 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。