VN.019-夏小秋秋秋

年过半百的养蜂人老周一生被金钱困扰，身患重病后不愿拖累在外打拼的儿子，独自住进一家老旧酒店，打算在最后一夜写下遗书，安静告别。 　　可这一晚，他却接连迎来三位不速之客：行踪诡异的房客、闹得鸡飞狗跳的年轻人、带着熟悉气息的少女。 　　三段荒诞又惊险的奇遇，让老周亲身经历了如同电影般的“犯罪”“闹剧”“爱情”。他由此渐渐懂得，亲情与真心，远比金钱更加珍贵。一夜之间，他对人生、对陪伴、对爱，都有了全新的答案。

　　东北小镇，白事先生张英豪和卖狐皮的王元顺意气相投。但背地里王元顺却与张英豪的媳妇李文红有染。李文红怀上了王元顺的孩子，王元顺决定杀死张英豪。然而他雇佣来的杀手竟屡屡失手。王元顺杀人不成反被杀手讹钱。无奈之下，他开始挑拨杀手们的关系……一年后，一具尸体惊现废井。警方确定王元顺有重大作案嫌疑。可王元顺却已离奇失踪，仿佛人间蒸发……

　　1941年，第二次世界大战如火如荼。英国伦敦遭到纳粹法西斯的毁灭性轰炸，成千上万的人流离失所，更有无数儿童沦为孤儿。为了躲避战火的蹂躏，陆军军官的妻子海伦·霍格女士（海伦·麦克洛瑞 Helen McCrory 饰）与伊芙·帕金斯（菲比·福克斯 Phoebe Fox 饰）带着孤儿们登上列车，辗转来到一处偏远所在避难。经过长途跋涉，她们抵达目的地并被安排在临时的占时军队医院落脚。只不过它的前身这里正是那个黑衣女人横行盘桓的Eel Marsh House。才脱狼穴，又入虎口，惊慌失措的女人和孩子们即将迎来比战争更为可怕的噩梦，恶灵的杀戮有序展开……　　本片根据英国小说家苏珊·希尔（Susan Hill）的畅销小说改编。

　　在被诊断出患有绝症后，克莱尔决定进行最后一次旅行，前往瑞士。在那里，她可以在一家协助自杀协会的帮助下决定如何以及何时结束自己的生命。陪伴她超过四十年的查洛决定与她一同踏上这段单程之旅。与此同时，摩根娜在父母之间以及他们即将离开的所有事物之间成为了一个不情愿的调解人，同时也在努力寻找自己在这个故事中的位置。

本片是关于一个被自己的父母抛弃的女孩的故事，14岁就离家出走的她，被当地的一个牧师收养了。后来，她所遇到的人，将会给她本来就很悲惨的命运带来怎样的影响呢？对于安吉拉.阿卜迪恩来讲，为了她，他宁愿牺牲自己也要与撒旦达成死亡契约，这样就可以让她灵魂永生，为了报仇，她先去把那牧师的教堂烧成了焦土，而牧师因为喝多了而死在了教堂里。可是后来，她却在都市的灯红酒绿中染上了毒瘾和酒瘾，殊不知，她的脚已经迈入了地狱之门…从做了艳舞女郎到做妓女，发现毒瘾已让她无法自拔，甚至他觉得撒旦也抛弃了她 。

　　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.