镜花风月之与鬼同眠

 一个摇滚乐队的鼓手（里兹·阿迈德）突然发现自己失聪，他的乐队搭档露（奥利维亚·库克）和他都很懊恼，但又不得不面对这残酷的现实。影片去年在多伦多电影节首映，作为导演处女作获得媒体好评。

　　一生化公司在沼泽地做各种人体实验，当年被化学感染的博士住在此处伸张正义！

人生胜利组希文靠自己努力，打败99.9%香港人，却因误信朋友面临破产边缘。由深水湾搬到深水埗，势要在短时间内极速债务重组，一日未认输一日都未输！得知天真富二代正筹组足球联赛，刚好同房表妹闲时会在街场与几个小喽啰踢波追梦，有乜比基层追梦更追梦。当然一波会有三折，到底希文与五个小孩又会如何踢出精彩的一局呢？典型格局非典型救赎，久违的温情港产喜剧，笑声笑声满载温馨，注入我体内，大小演员个个卖力演出，演活擅打逆境波的港人故事。

　　一名退伍军人得到一份抢劫房子的工作，但结果发现这所房子是 Nyai 的房子，Nyai 是一位小妾，又名 Gundik。

　　自幼能够看到恐怖幽灵的八神森司（中山优马 饰），在高中时邂逅了被神秘鬼影纠缠的后辈小历（岛崎遥香 饰）。他虽然喜欢对方，却由于自身胆怯的性格始终无法表白。第一年没有考上大学，经过一番努力森司如愿进入期望的高校，并且和小历重逢。在此期间，他听说小历和童年好友加入了某个超自然研究会，联想到高中的事件，森司无法对小历放任不管，于是也硬着头皮加入进去。这群个性满满的年轻人每天追踪各类神秘事件，不久后校园内开始出现离奇现象，而小历也成为恶灵狙击的目标……　　本片根据第19届日本恐怖小说大奖读者奖获得者櫛木理宇的同名作品改编。

　　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.