年轻母亲4

　　1977年，在被军事独裁统治折磨的巴西，四十多岁的马塞洛逃离了他混乱的过去，来到累西腓，希望在这里建立新的生活并与家人重修旧好。然而，他并未料到死亡威胁如影随形，笼罩在他的头顶。

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。

1940年的伯明翰，在第二次世界大战的混乱中，汤米·谢尔比（基里安·墨菲 饰）从自我放逐中回归，直面着迄今为止最具破坏性的清算。家族和国家的未来岌岌可危，汤米必须面对自己心中的恶魔，并选择是直面它还是将其毁灭。

　　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.