亲爱的母亲

　　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.

　　小说作家在圣诞节返乡整理儿时故居，遇见了一位正在寻找生母的女人。一本旧日记能解开她们的过往秘密，打开彼此心房吗？

 7th century Arabia. A time of feuding tribes vying for power and supremacy. Courageous Princess Hind (Aiysha Hart) refuses to serve as concubine to the merciless Sassanid Emperor Kisra (Sir Ben Kingsley). Escaping with her father King Numan into the vast and unforgiving desert, Hind is pursued by Kisra’s mercenary and his bloodthirsty troops. Father and daughter are forced to trust a mysterious bandit (Anthony Mackie). Against all odds, Hind unites the fractious tribes against the powerful invading military of the Sassanid Empire. In an epic showdown, the Battle of Ze Qar will forever change the Arabian Peninsula and echo throughout history.

　　丰国商事在北海道纹别地区一直进行着森林采伐，作为现场监督人员的后藤裕一无意中发现了隐藏在这片森林之 中的古代遗迹并将埋藏在这片遗迹中的一枚盾牌拿了回去。　　其实这片遗迹是妖精族留下来的，在此地还 封印了一个叫做帝斯基多拉的宇宙怪兽。6500万年前从外星而来的它毁灭了一切植物，导致了恐龙灭绝，而那枚盾牌正是用来封印怪兽帝斯基多拉的。　　对此毫不知情的裕一将这枚盾牌带回了位于都内自己的 家并把它作为挂饰送给了自己的女儿，然后自己又返回到了采伐现场。黑色妖精贝拉贝拉飞来抢夺这枚盾牌并与对立派莫儿、罗拉姐妹展开了盾牌争夺战。在被莫儿、罗拉姐妹告知盾牌和封印的由来的后藤一家与莫儿、罗拉姐妹一起准备前往纹别。但在纹别的却出现了一块巨大的岩石。在后藤一家的协助之下罗拉姐妹夺回了盾牌，但是怪兽帝斯基多拉却从岩石中复活了。它像恶魔一样恐怖。为了打到怪兽帝斯基多拉，莫儿召唤来了摩斯拉。但是摩斯拉刚刚产完卵，寿命不长的她和怪兽之间陷入了苦战。为了助自己母亲一臂之力早产的 幼虫通过自己的丝和光线支援母亲作战。　　摩斯拉不断挑战怪兽，使水库决堤成功的将怪兽逼到了对岸，但是摩斯拉拼尽了全力最终沉入了海底。在这之后，幼虫在屋久島充分吸收了森林的能量新的摩斯拉再次诞生了。于此同时怪兽也已经重新恢复到毁灭地球时的完 全状态，新的摩斯拉与怪兽再次交战，他以压倒性的力量和优势再次将怪兽封印到了地下。此后，摩斯拉让被怪 兽烧掉的已成荒芜的北海道瞬间重获绿色，并和莫儿、罗拉姐妹一起返回到了家乡。