我的美好欲望

　　玛拉（裴淳华 Rosamund Pike 饰）经营着一家监护人公司，她专门寻找身体情况欠佳同时又无依无靠的老年人下手，通过并不是那么合法的手段令自己成为他们的法定监护人，将他们送进疗养院，之后便可接手和变卖他们的财产和房产，再将所得据为己有。　　某日，玛拉将下一个“吞噬”的目标放在了一位名叫珍妮弗（黛安娜·维斯特 Dianne Wiest 饰）的老太太身上，经调查，珍妮弗没有任何的亲人，同时又拥有着价值不菲的遗产，简直就是他们的最佳“肥羊”。在一番操作之后，珍妮弗被没收手机关进了疗养院，但此时的玛拉和她的恋人兼合伙人弗兰（艾莎·冈萨雷斯 Eiza González 饰）并不知道的是，她们惹上了一个不该惹，也不能惹的人。

　　少女凯特（莱斯利-安妮·哈芙 Leslie-Anne Huff 饰）拥有一种神奇的能力，随便什么人，她只要看上一眼，便能知道他的死期为何时。一次偶然中，凯特遇见了名为杰森（Anthony Chaput 饰）的男子，凯特发现杰森拥有能够在死后和现世交流的能力，并且，杰森的死期就在几个小时之后。一直想要知道死后世界是什么模样的凯特摆脱杰森在死后同她联络，杰森兴然应允。　　果然，很快杰森便死了，在临死之时，一副诡异恐怖的画面出现在了杰森的眼前。之后，凯特果然接到了杰森来自“阴间”的电话，根据杰森的指使，凯特需要前往香港，在那里，一位名叫达伦（陈奕迅 饰）的酒保正在等她。

　　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.

　　《探魔导师》将背景设定在一个由十大财团控制的架空历史下的摩登市。洪冰瑶饰演的是个性别模糊能穿梭时空的魔导师T，因被迫卷入组织权利斗争，成为组织的牺牲品。T协助警察破案来实现自己的人生价值。在调查“人类失踪案”的过程中，T发现人类失踪与畸形科技“潘多拉”有关，该科技利用人类原罪使人类互相欺诈谋杀，试图让整个摩登市陷入混乱，随着线索一步步逼近，T渐渐意识到社会的种种混乱由十大财团操纵，一切的根源似乎直指给人类带来巨大益处的人工智能，一场人类与人工智能的生存争夺战由此拉开。

 Exploring the friendship between renowned preacher George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin, and Whitefield's impact during the pivotal Great Awakening religious movement.