处女的奇迹

　　父亲的突然去世让汤米（安东·尤金 Anton Yelchin 饰）一家人陷入了混乱，家庭无人照料一片狼藉，母亲终日哭泣郁郁寡欢，就在这样一种糟糕的情况下，汤米迎来了自己躁动又不安的青春，无处发泄的他只能通过调皮捣蛋来纾解心中的积怨。辍学后的汤米在一家熟食店打工，负责送货。　　汤米和朋友帕鲁帕斯（罗宾·威廉斯 Robin Williams 饰）成天厮混在一起，帕鲁帕斯是一个外表成熟但心智幼稚的“大龄儿童”，两人之间的感情真挚又深厚。一次意外中，汤米结识了妓女蕾蒂（Erykah Badu 饰），后者带领他进入了成年人的世界，享受了爱情的甜蜜与苦涩。一场意外的发生摧毁了汤米自由的生活，它不仅终结了汤米的现在，也波及到了他的未来。

　　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.

　　狱中5个素不相识的人成了好兄弟——五福星。茶壶（洪金宝 饰）、死气喉（吴耀汉 饰）、卷毛积（岑建勋 饰）、凡士林（秦祥林 饰）和鲁奇（冯淬帆 饰）五人皆因小偷小摸或跑龙套成了冤大头，他们决心出狱后重新做人，光明正大挣钱。五人同一天出狱了，出狱后他们合股成立了一间清洁公司 ，专门帮公司或家居进行清洁。　　一天，黑帮在交易制贩假炒的电版时，被当地一个愣警察撞见了。慌乱之下，他们将电版藏进了五福星的清洁车的清洁箱内。毫不知情的五福星就这样又无端卷入了江湖是非中：一方面，警察怀疑他们是黑帮同伙，在四处通缉他们；另一方面，黑帮也在追寻他们，想杀人灭口取回电版。五福星在进退两难的境地如何运用他们的奇谋妙计脱险？

　　20世纪30年代，战争的幽灵盘桓世界上空。纳粹相信妖术可以帮助他们迈向胜利，于是派出手下四处寻找便捷的“治世良方”。1936年，在美国西弗吉尼亚的一个偏僻乡村复仇溪，诚实善良的沃尔纳一家迎来一名不速之客。隶属于北美地区德国遗产学术委员会的理查德·沃斯博士（Michael Fassbender 饰）来到这里，借住在沃尔纳家。一家人虽然心有惴惴，不过看在钱的份上欣然接纳沃斯博士，并对其表现出诚挚的热情，却不曾想对方带来了难以置信的灾难。　　2007年，警察伊万·马歇尔（Henry Cavill 饰）生活正陷入困境。他的哥哥维克多（Dominic Purcell 饰）一度消失。当他以为兄长已死时，维克多却突然出现，带着弟弟来到复仇溪。维克多究竟经历了怎样的磨难？这与30年代沃尔纳一家的遭遇又有什么关联？