周末女孩

　　本片根据印度畅销书作家奇坦·巴哈特（Chetan Bhagat）的处女作小说《五点人》（Five Point Someone）改编而成。法兰（马德哈万 R Madhavan 饰）、拉杜（沙曼·乔希 Sharman Joshi 饰）与兰乔（阿米尔·汗 Aamir Khan 饰）是皇家工程学院的学生，三人共居一室，结为好友。在以严格著称的学院里，兰乔是个非常与众不同的学生，他不死记硬背，甚至还公然顶撞校长“病毒”（波曼·伊拉尼 Boman Irani 饰），质疑他的教学方法。他不仅鼓动法兰与拉杜去勇敢追寻理想，还劝说校长的二女儿碧雅（卡琳娜·卡普 Kareena Kapoor 饰）离开满眼铜臭的未婚夫。兰乔的特立独行引起了模范学生“消音器”（奥米·维嘉 Omi Vaidya 饰）的不满，他约定十年后再与兰乔一决高下，看哪种生活方式更能取得成功。　　本片获孟买电影博览奖最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳配角（波曼·伊拉尼）、最佳剧本等六项大奖，并获国际印度电影协会最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳剧情、最佳摄影等十六项大奖。

精英狙击手布兰登·贝克特与他的小队在哥斯达黎加执行一项秘密任务时，遭遇阴谋陷害，任务失败演变为国际丑闻。为了掩盖真相，美国政府直接撇清关系，将这群最锋利的战士定性为“恐怖分子”。前一秒还为国效力的英雄，后一秒就成了被自己国家通缉的逃兵。没有合法的身份，没有空中支援，甚至没有合法的射击通道，布兰登陷入了前所未有的孤立无援。

　　阿姆布罗瑟（文森特·卡索 Vincent Cassel 饰）是一名非常虔诚的修道士，早就发誓将自己的身体和心里全权交由上帝管理。苛刻而又严格的他对教义有着自己独特的理解，他觉得世人每一日都在玷污上帝的存在。玛蒂娜非常的崇拜阿姆布罗瑟，她的顺从和服从激发了阿姆布罗瑟潜藏在心底的兽欲，欲望一旦被激发，就无法收拾，阿姆布罗瑟一步一步向着深渊走去。　　安东尼娅（约瑟芬·约比 Joséphine Japy 饰）是常常前往修道院为自己的母亲祷告的女孩，她的纯洁吸引了阿姆布罗斯的注意，后者为了能够占有她的身体，不惜设计将她的母亲杀死。最终，阿姆布罗瑟的种种罪行被一个贵族青年给发现了。

　　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.