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　　《暗黑女子》改编自秋吉理香子的同名人气推理小说，描述了女子高中美少女白石逸美神秘死亡以后，逸美同校文学部的少女们，开始以她的死亡为主题，各自发表了检举犯人的作品。由清水富美加和饭丰万理江担任双主演，由《百濑，朝向这边》、《战神：只是爱着你》的导演耶云哉治执导。　　影片《暗黑女子》是一部由耶云哉治执导的影片，该片于2017年4月1日本上映。　　本片围绕基督教名媛学校圣母玛利亚女子高等学院的理事长之女、全校同学羡慕的物件——白石逸美（饭丰饰演）神秘死亡的故事展开。　　好友澄川小百合（清水饰演）代替逸美，继任了文学小组的会长而被成员们怀疑。她为了查明逸美死亡的原因并找出真凶，让成员们写关于「逸美之死」的小说，然后大家一起摸黑开朗读会。　　清水富美加饰演文学部部长澄川小百合，白石逸美则由饭丰万理江出演。千叶雄大饰演的北条老师曾是学校文学部的顾问，因向身边工作人员讲猥琐话题被赶走，实际上拥有不为人知的秘密。　　其他角色方面，保加利亚留学生狄安娜•迪切瓦由玉城蒂娜扮演，清野菜名出演作家高冈志夜；梦想成为甜点师的小南彩音由小岛梨里杏扮演，总是为奖学金而焦虑的二谷美礼由平佑奈扮演。

　　为了帮助好友文斯（斯蒂芬·格拉汉姆 Stephen Graham 饰）度过伤心的离婚，一群好友尼尔（丹尼·戴尔 Danny Dyer 饰）、科勒雷（比利·穆瑞 Billy Murray 饰）、米奇（洛尔·克拉克 Noel Clarke 饰）、马特（李·恩格里比 Lee Ingleby 饰）等人带着他前往一偏僻小镇度假。本以为去的是人间天堂，结果他们却发现这里根本就是地狱，因为这里的女人都染上了怪病，会像僵尸一样袭击、吃掉所有男人。尽管这些男人平时都是唯唯诺诺的“妻管严”，但是面对女僵尸他们绝不手软，于是一场好好的度假彻底沦为了爷们儿大战女僵尸的战争。

　　为了能让身患老年痴呆症的父亲重回正常的生活，威尔·罗曼（詹姆斯·弗兰科 James Franco 饰）一直致力于名为“Cure”的基因药物的开发，并在大猩猩身上不断进行着药物试验。在公司已经失去信心的同时，威尔继续在家完成试验，并在一只名为凯撒的大猩猩身上获得成功。借助灵长类学家卡洛琳（芙蕾达·平托 Freida Pinto 饰）的帮助，威尔发现凯撒的智力极大地提高。不过，人类的社会始终无法接受拥有极高智力的凯撒，凯撒被送往了猩猩看护所。看护所的残酷对待，使得凯撒利用智慧进行抗争，最终救走了同时被囚禁的其他猩猩，而且对它们都使用了Cure。一群高智商的猩猩与人类对立的战争就此拉开。本片获得了第84届奥斯卡最佳视觉效果的提名。

　　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.