女友的真实样貌

　　在一场暴风雨中，两个罪犯找到了一个看似废弃的农场小屋避雨。他们挟持了里面的居民，但没有想到，这个看似废弃的小屋有着自己的秘密......

　　卡洛比安奇和多里亚诺是两个生活拮据的五十多岁男人，他们秉持着“绝不错过最后一杯酒”的人生哲学。在一次偶然的机会中，他们结识了朱利奥，一位性格内向、对人生感到迷茫的建筑学学生。这场看似不经意的邂逅，却逐渐演变成了一场穿越威尼斯平原的混乱公路旅行。　　在旅途中，糟糕的建议、宿醉的困扰以及意料之外的友情，不断挑战朱利奥对人生和爱情的原有计划。这场旅程不仅重新定义了他们彼此的生活，也让朱利奥开始重新思考自己的未来方向。

　　帕特里克（让·雷诺 Jean Reno 饰）是一名艺术品大盗，在偷窃珍贵的小提琴斯特拉迪瓦里的时候，帕特里克遭到了同伴罗曼（）的陷害，不仅颗粒无收还险些丧命。帕特里开隐居了起来，发誓要从罗曼的身上夺回属于自己的东西。　　帕特里克设计将自己的两个女儿卡罗尔（法米克·詹森 Famke Janssen 饰）和卡洛琳（丽姆·柯里奇 Reem Kherici 饰）召回到了自己的身边，身为一名父亲，他缺失了两个女孩的童年，如今，帕特里克希望能有补救他们父女关系的机会。刚开始，两个姑娘对帕特里克特殊的职业和诉求嗤之以鼻，但随着时间的推移，妇女三人之间的感情渐渐回温。

　　陈薇（尹馨 饰）带着女儿（林采洁 饰）为躲避家暴的丈夫住进有自杀胜地之称的蝴蝶大厦后怪事频传。管理员梁伯（冯淬帆 饰）和顶楼的庙公山叔（蔡振南 饰）不断提醒她这一层楼不太干净，如果有能力还是尽快搬走，但是经济拮据的她暂时只能栖身于此。各种三教九流的邻居、杂货铺有阴阳眼的自闭症男孩阿弟（白润音 饰），还有那间被再三交代禁止靠近的613号房，一切都令陈薇感到诡异莫名。外表阳光的代班管理员小梁（曹佑宁 饰）对独立坚强的陈薇照顾有加，经常借故上门帮忙维修家电，陈薇女儿看到他来也会难得露出微笑。正值鬼门开时，蝴蝶大厦内意外频传，甚至发生许多灵异事件，但老住户们似乎已经习以为常。陈薇原本是想带女儿逃离丈夫，不料却将自己卷入更大危机之中...

　　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.

　　Channel 5和PBS Masterpiece宣布一次性续订《万物生灵》第五季、第六季，均由6集和圣诞特别集组成。