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　　在边境城市圣帕布罗，为一年一度的“墨西哥嘉年华”做准备，加金到来了：强硬，神秘和简洁。他的任务是：找到同样神秘的弗兰克雨果，显然是为了报复；还是敲诈？FBI探员雷茨也在追捕难以捉摸的雨果。镇上的每个人都是神秘的，尤其是皮拉，一个神秘的少年，跟随加金四处，并预感到他的死亡。还包括一个经典的女性法塔莱和一个古老的旋转木马与一个粉红色的马…

 麦克墨菲（杰克·尼科尔森 Jack Nicholson 饰）为了逃避监狱里的强制劳动，装作精神异常，被送进了精神病院，他的到来，给死气沉沉的精神病院带来了剧烈的冲击。 麦克要求看棒球比赛的电视转播，挑战了医院严格的管理制度，受到护士长拉契特（路易丝·弗莱彻 Louise Fletcher 饰）的百般阻挠；麦克带领病人出海捕鱼，振奋了他们的精神，却让院方头痛不已。院方为了惩处麦克胆大妄为、屡犯院规，决定将他永远留在疯人院。生性自由的麦克再也无法忍受疯人院的生活，他联合病友，高大的印第安人“酋长”，开始自己的计划：飞越疯人院。 本片获1975年第48届奥斯卡最佳影片，最佳男、女主角，最佳导演和最佳改编剧本五项大奖。主人公“不自由，毋宁死”的精神在当今社会仍有很大的现实意义。

　　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.

1982年，英国。一位年轻有抱负的日英混血作家准备书写其母亲——1952年，英国。战后移英的日本妇人悦子，因长女自杀而忆起在长崎的最后一段时光。悦子与妇人幸子相遇，幸子也准备和女儿出国，对新生活翘首以待。然而，作家在拼凑线索及母亲的记忆碎片时，渐渐发现母亲的记忆与现实相左.…..石川庆改编诺贝尔文学奖得主石黑一雄早年同名原著，双线刻划战后女性挣扎求存之境，表面平静实质波澜不休，折射出大时代下压抑而沉重的集体记忆与痛苦。