黑天使

　　知名电视财经专家李·盖茨（乔治·克鲁尼 George Clooney 饰）在电视财经节目《金钱怪兽》中担任主持人而声名大噪，在节目中经常出现疯狂举动，会大声说出投资建议，不时在节目中用搞笑的道具和音效介绍股市。然而，事实上他是透过内线消息让他在华尔街成为赚钱高手。一名不速之客（杰克·奥康奈尔 Jack O'Connell 饰），因为听信投资分析而赔光积蓄，因此在节目直播中绑架了盖茨与节目制作人帕蒂·芬恩（朱莉娅·罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰）。同时全国民众也透过电视在看着这场玩命直播，而这场挟持行动也揭发了背后更巨大的金融操弄丑闻。

　　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.

　　一位身无分文的同志演员和一位因生意失败而陷入困境的高层人物在一个冬夜相遇，并联手在伦敦各地寻找他们悲惨生活的意义，但当他们看似不可能的联系变成了更深层次的东西时，来自过去的恐惧和心魔开始危及他们的生活。

　　佩特拉（玛吉特·卡斯滕森 Margit Carstensen 饰）是一位小有名气的女画家，和丈夫结婚多年，两人养育了一个女儿。然而，随着时间的推移，佩特拉发现自己越来越看不起虚伪冷漠的丈夫，不自由的婚姻生活令她感到窒息，于是，她选择了离婚　　经朋友西朵妮（Katrin Schaake 饰）的介绍，佩特拉结识了名为卡琳（汉娜·许古拉 Hanna Schygulla 饰）的美国女子，趣味相投的两人很快就彼此吸引，开始了她们的同居生活。佩特拉供养着卡琳，并且积极地将她引入时装模特的行列，然而，卡琳却将佩特拉的爱意视为束缚，最终她选择了离开。失去了卡琳，佩特拉的生活陷入一片混乱，渐渐走向崩溃的边缘。