巫毒激情

探索现代浪漫的起起落落。

　　一双绣花鞋，隐藏着一个死亡诅咒，凡是穿过绣花鞋的人都意外惨死，无一幸免。安雯（何乙轩 饰）大病未愈，摆脱了丈夫潘航（辉灿 饰）和医生的看护，独自逃回老家古宅生活。安雯在老宅发现了一双祖上流传并受到死亡诅咒的绣花鞋，阴差阳错之下绣花鞋穿在了她的脚上，意外开启了绣花鞋上的死亡诅咒。咒怨生效冤魂索命，盘桓在老宅之中的诡影无处不在，无法摆脱的恶灵如影随形，迫使频临崩溃的安雯做出疯狂的举动，陷入一场危机四伏的惊魂逃亡……

　　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.

　　为纪念苏联卫国战争30周年，前苏联莫斯科电影制片厂于1970—1972年，拍摄了一部堪称前苏联电影史上耗资最巨、规模最大、场面最为壮观的战争题材影片———《解放》。影片从1943年苏联红军反攻（库尔斯克战役）开始，到强渡涅伯河，解放基辅，最后攻克柏林。分为五集，片长将近8个小时。导演尤里·奥泽洛夫为强调“纪实性”、“史诗性”，在影片中穿插了大量的真实历史文献镜头。影片还出现了不少历史人物，如斯大林、朱可夫、罗斯福、丘吉尔、希特勒、墨索里尼等。此外，影片还蕴涵丰富感人的故事情节，从苏、德两军统帅到普通士兵，从苏军反攻到德军覆没，成功地表现了一种攻无不克、战无不胜的革命乐观主义精神。