94应召女郎

加州套房

 故事发生在加州酒店之中。著名演员戴安娜（玛吉·史密斯 Maggie Smith 饰）和丈夫西德尼入住酒店，戴安娜获得了奥斯卡金像奖的提名，信心满满的她相信自己一定能够获奖，哪知道事与愿违，愤怒的戴安娜只想着赶紧离开这个让她感到伤心的地方。汉娜（简·方达 Jane Fonda 饰）带着女儿也住在酒店之中，她此行的目的是和同自己离婚已久的前夫比尔（阿伦·阿尔达 Alan Alda 饰）见面。女儿烦透了母亲的独断专决，希望能够留在这里和父亲生活一段时间。马文（沃尔特·马修 Walter Matthau 饰）比妻子早一天入住了酒店，哪知道自己的好哥们居然送了自己以为金发美人作为大礼。

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　　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.

死在那年夏天

　　乔伊是学校里公认的校花，她拥有着美丽的面孔和优越的身世，毫无疑问每日生活在幸福之中。然而某一日，这位集万千宠爱于一身的可爱姑娘却在社交网络上留下了“我想死”的绝望信息。阿信是乔伊的男友，两人之间感情十分要好，看到女友闷闷不乐的样子，阿信决定同好友阿敢一起，带着乔伊和她的闺蜜小敏前往海边度假。　　众人本以为，这会是一场充满了疯狂和欢乐的旅程，然而，乔伊的惨死却为这场派对蒙上了惊悚恐怖的阴影。余下的三人受到了不小的惊吓，他们决定隐瞒整个死亡事件，希望生活能够就此回归平静。不过显现，乔伊的冤魂并不愿意放过他们。

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