野花

　　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.

　　故事描述莱恩（吉诺亚拿尼亚 饰）的妹妹在几个月前失踪了，他认为她失踪的原因是玩了网路上流传的“电梯游戏”，传说只要照着特定步骤操作电梯，就可以前往另一个次元。为了找到妹妹，莱恩说服他的朋友们一同进行电梯游戏，此举却为他们招来无法挽回的后果……

　　安吉拉是27岁的普通女孩，生活平淡无奇。有天，她意外发现与自己亲近的人都死于非命。梵蒂冈教徒得知此事后，对安吉拉展开了一系列调查。可这次调查却引出了安吉拉背后古老的邪恶力量……

　　影片生动展现了墨西哥传奇女画家弗里达·卡罗的童年生活。好奇心旺盛的弗里达整天和妹妹玩耍，和邻居家的狗做朋友，爬树，在小镇上奔跑，当她拥有人生中的第一本笔记本，就迫不及待的上面涂满色彩斑斓的图画和想法。小儿麻痹症让她卧床不起，但小弗里达毫不退缩，一旦康复，她就会重返街头，展现她旺盛的生命力。

一对互相捆绑的挚友，在生活崩塌之际，遇见了自称能治愈一切创伤的神秘男子布莱恩。他的触碰如毒品般令人上瘾，瞬间抚平焦虑与抑郁，却在温柔面具下藏着外星掠食者的獠牙。当两人受邀前往他的偏远庄园，这场“疗愈之旅”彻底失控：触手、血案、精神操控，一场以爱为名的寄生，正在吞噬他们的灵魂与世界。