血衣天使

　　The bizarre and mysterious suicide of the Wendolyn’s patriarch brings the dysfunctional, pharma family back together. While the family members squabble over their dwindling inheritance, an ancient curse preys on their greed and arrogance. The Wendolyn’s made billions on painkillers, but no drug can kill the pain that they’ll soon endure.

失去妻子后，没有灵魂地生活的童话作家赵容熙。他只要去妻子画画的房间，就会出现过度呼吸的症状，很久没进过那个房间了。但是从某一天开始，那个房间里开始传来奇怪的声音。鼓起勇气打开房门的龙熙。妻子房间的天花板漏水，住着在仁偷偷藏起来的小猫。在仁拜托我养猫，雪上加霜的是，来修理天花板的木匠哈罗恩提议把闲置的房间变成猫的房间…龙熙究竟会做出什么选择？

　　人間と人魚が共存する未来社会を舞台とする本作。船舶を製造する会社で働くサラリーマンのステファンは、ある日突然、人魚王国の姫・チャオに求婚される。ステファンはわけがわからないままチャオと一緒に生活する中で、純粋でまっすぐなチャオに少しずつ惹かれていく。

　　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.