難以忘懷前男友的大棒滋味

　　20世紀80年代初，站街流鶯辛蒂（瓦妮莎·哈金斯 Vanessa Hudgens 飾）險些遭人殺害。與此同時，在阿拉斯加一處荒涼所在，一名女性尸體被人發現。警官杰克·海爾康伯（尼古拉斯·凱奇 Nicolas Cage 飾）從辛蒂處了解到，兇手手段殘暴無情，并且可能是個連環殺手。由于背負著不堪回首的過去，杰克一方面決定保護這個僥幸從死神手中逃脫的女孩，另一方面將目標鎖定在曾在70年代有過前科的男子羅伯特·漢森（約翰·庫薩克 John Cusack 飾）身上。羅伯特道貌岸然，不動聲色繼續著他的獵殺活動，當他意外再度出現在辛蒂面前時，正邪雙方的對決即將到了關鍵時刻……　　本片根據真實事件改編。

該片是一部融合科幻驚悚與人性拷問的電影。影片以虛構的西岸港為背景，講述了新聞記者濮欣(徐冬冬飾演)在調查跨國企業賽爾斯集團的污染事件時，意外卷入一場由其父親濮教授(張德暉飾演)所在的孤島實驗室引發的基因災難。當實驗創造出嗜血變異昆蟲并失控后，集團為掩蓋真相切斷聯系、銷毀證據，使被困者陷入絕境。為尋找失聯的父親，濮欣與男友江海(婁淇試驗)潛入死島，在怪物橫行、通訊斷絕的險境中，逐步揭開實驗背后的殘酷陰謀。

　　本片是蘇聯偉大衛國戰爭系列史詩巨片之一部。影片盡情歌頌了蘇聯人民，在德國法西斯圍困列寧格勒的900個艱難的日日夜夜，所表現出來的頑強精神。影片及表現了蘇軍大本營對列寧格勒的戰略布防，也表現出列寧格勒市民面對生死的堅忍不拔。同時也是為數不多的蘇聯戰爭影片，客觀地表現了戰爭初期紅軍失利，以及紅軍將領伏羅希洛夫元帥組織列寧格勒城防的失敗。影片還展現了列寧格勒基洛夫工廠，冒著的德軍轟炸，堅持為前線生產武器，以及軍隊和市民通過城市唯一與外界的通道——拉多加湖通道，運送糧食、武器和其他戰略物資的場面。該片還較為詳實地展示了希特勒攻占列寧格勒的計劃，以及紅軍與市民聯手防御，共同抗敵的畫面。這部影片，將戰爭的全景展示與戰壕細節完美地結合起來，直到今天仍不失為一部反法西戰爭的優秀影片，很值得觀賞和借鑒。

　　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.