被强暴的女人

我们这样，是爱吗？阿妹天生患有脑性麻痹，性格却异常跳脱乐观，闲时会约朋友踩板吹水，画画作乐，二十多年来一直努力不被身体耽误。可是过度保护的母亲坚决安排她进行子宫切除手术，阿妹努力建立的生活再次失去平衡，她的身体永远是不由自主的。在朋友推荐下，阿妹找到了一个专为残疾人士提供性服务的自发组织，并认识了义工Ken。这无私的相遇仿佛抚慰了两个受伤的灵魂，那日渐累积的情愫冲淡了道德与身体的羁绊，这样的关系，是爱吗？ 　　谭惠贞继《以青春的名义》（第14届开幕电影）后第二部长片作品，将爱情元素和身障者性权益议题融合，成就一个道德探索与自我寻找的故事。

1939年繁昌保卫战，新四军排长朱振率队护送握有日军南京暴行证据与作战计划的记者陆瑛。遭日军围追堵截，队员接连牺牲，历经雪原伏击、山洞激战等生死考验，最终朱振殉国，陆瑛成功送证，助新四军获胜，日军罪行曝光。

　　带着过往伤痛，塞吉欧只身一人前往「微笑之村」担任代理教师。这座对负能量零容忍的小镇，明明曾遭逢巨变，居民们却笑口常开。原来，让这座微笑之村风光明媚的秘方，是一位能吸取人间苦痛的男孩，他的身体如祭坛，透过拥抱承担全村的悲伤。他为人搭建快乐天堂，自己却陷入无尽黑暗。塞吉欧与男孩的相遇，搅乱了镇上的平衡；那座炼狱之门，也终将反向人间敞开。

　　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.