上瘾2023

　　20世纪80年代，美丽的女大学生萨曼莎·休斯（乔塞琳·多纳休 Jocelin Donahue 饰）看上一间公寓，好心的女房东已经免去了麻烦的保证金，不过萨曼莎还是要为了每月的房租而努力。她从布告栏找到一份保姆的工作，当晚，萨曼莎的好友梅根（格蕾塔·葛韦格 Greta G erwig 饰）送她前往雇主家面试。梅根对这份工作颇有顾忌，而萨曼莎似乎急于赚钱，全不在意。　　雇主乌尔曼夫妇住在荒郊野外的一幢老式别墅中，这里没有小孩需要照看，文森特·乌尔曼先生（汤姆·诺南 Tom Noonan 饰）要为他生病的母亲找一位护理人员。萨曼莎起初惴惴不安，但看在钱的份上她最终选择留在这里。而她将为这个选择后悔莫及……

　　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.

　　一场意外让小樱（钟楚红 饰）和阿霖（钟镇涛 饰）相识了，随着时间的推移，两颗心越靠越近，两人最终走到了一起。没过多久，他们就决定搬到同一屋檐下，开始了同居生活。可是，零距离的接触在令他们更加亲密的同时也带来了很多的隐患，小樱和阿林都感觉多，两人的个性并不是表面上看起来的那么合拍。久而久之，这段感情开始出现了裂痕。　　阿林是一名操盘手，他的介入导致了他的一个朋友赔钱赔到倾家荡产，而这件事情也促成了他和小樱之间的决裂。和小樱分手后，阿林痛定思痛，内心充满了愧疚的他决定不惜丢掉工作也要揭露股市中的隐藏的阴谋。

　　某纺织厂的音乐部教师东植对锦川发生的一起杀人事件表示出极大的兴趣。　　某天，东植从女工郭善英处收到一封情书，并向舍监告发，善英被工厂开除。曾鼓励善英写信的朋友赵庆熙借着钢琴辅导的契机开始出入东植家。为了贴补家计，东植妻子做了很多裁缝活儿，身体越来越虚弱。东植委托庆熙寻找到一名合适的下女，帮助持家。妻子怀孕回娘家的当下，庆熙借机向东植表达了爱意，却受到辱蔑被撵了出去。这一切都被窗外的下女看到眼里。下女借机诱惑东植，并与之发生了肉体关系。三个月后，下女怀孕。东植的妻子知道真相后，将下女推下楼梯，导致流产。失去孩子的下女怒火中烧，性情开始变得暴烈。结果，下女将东植夫妇俩的孩子也推下楼梯，藏了起来。下女以向工厂曝光所有事实相要挟。为了保住整个家庭，东植将二层的房间让给下女。最后，准备和下女一起吃耗子药自杀的东植看到死在台阶上的下女，毅然抛弃了她，重新回到了妻子身边。这时，电影画面再次回到东植夫妇看着有关那起杀人新闻的画面，东植不禁说道：这样的事情有可能发生在任何一个人的身上。