火热的邻居

　　阿黄（许冠文 饰）是一名料理师，个性有些轻浮又十分爱现，但实际上，他是个名副其实的“妻管严”。阿黄和爷爷（许英秀 饰）一起住在岳父（卢海鹏 饰）家中，岳父性格武断又强势，生活中阿黄免不了要受气，日积月累下来，阿黄的心中积蓄了许多不满。　　某日，一位名为施施（叶倩文 饰）的美丽女子出现在了阿黄的面前，她正是阿黄的梦中情人。让阿黄没有想到的是，施施竟然对自己一往情深，还邀请他去菲律宾度假，这样的好机会阿黄怎么能够放过，两人遂即动身。阿黄的妻子（邹美仪 饰）和好友雪莉（叶丽仪 饰）得知此事，遂和父亲一起，对阿黄展开了“追捕”。

　　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.

　　一个出生在印第安区的黑人女孩意外继承了一片充满石油的土地，汹涌的黑金下，她将面对攫取、迫害、偏见、中伤，并用她的意外横财去帮助他人。

　　故事背景设定在星际殖民的未来时代，神秘的漂泊者赛（凯南鲁兹饰）遇见了为地球外军事承包商艾克索工作的中尉肯恩（丹尼尔麦佛森饰），这对背景南辕北辙的搭档，必须在艾索克掀起的星球危机中，同心协力救出肯恩的小女儿，而为了理念背叛神通广大的艾索克的两人，除了必须面对天罗地网般的追捕，还得战胜游荡在荒芜星球上的野蛮生物。