妻子的男人秘密

 1940年的伯明翰，在第二次世界大战的混乱中，汤米·谢尔比（基里安·墨菲 饰）从自我放逐中回归，直面着迄今为止最具破坏性的清算。家族和国家的未来岌岌可危，汤米必须面对自己心中的恶魔，并选择是直面它还是将其毁灭。

尼古拉斯·考夫兰和伊莎贝尔·戈尔注定要在一起。问题是他们是否会发现。正如鬼魂、命运和真爱的纯粹力量将尼古拉斯和伊莎贝尔拉在一起一样，生活也有可能将他们分开。

　　正驻扎于伦敦的马戏团内，生活着自幼驼背的青年（丹尼尔·雷德克里夫 Daniel Radcliffe 饰）。他的丑样子只能供人家取乐，而青年独独热爱医学，尤其擅长解剖学。在某次演出事故中，青年用自己的学识救下了摔成骨折命悬一线的女演员罗蕾莱（杰西卡·布朗·芬德利 Jessica Brown Findlay 饰）。他的学问得到疯狂科学家维克多·弗兰肯斯坦（詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊 James McAvoy 饰）的赏识，于是后者想方设法将其劫了出来，还为其起名伊戈尔。在此之前，弗兰肯斯坦曾经做出盗取动物园死亡动物尸体的事情，而他这一系列的做法只为进行一项疯狂大胆的实验，那就是缝缝补补创造出来人造的生物。　　疯狂之旅就此展开……

　　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.