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19 十九

迷失禁區

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布賴頓硬糖

　　英國海濱小鎮布賴頓，凱特斯和卡林奧里兩大黑幫組織盤踞于此，互相角力，此消彼長。某夜，凱特斯被對頭當街殺害，視老大如親父的平基（Sam Riley 飾）目睹了兇案的全過程，于是想參與者之一的福瑞德（Sean Harris 飾）展開追殺。福瑞德雖死，卻留下一堆的麻煩，他生前為了躲避跟蹤曾某餐館女侍應生羅絲（Andrea Riseborough 飾），并與之留下合影。為了銷毀證據，平基開始接近這名單純的女孩，而羅絲也漸漸愛上了帥氣冷酷的平基。與此同時，凱特斯的死亡也讓布賴頓的黑幫勢力失衡，一方面卡林奧里迅速擴張，一方面本幫內部展開權力爭奪，平基深陷其中無法自拔……　　本片根據Graham Greene 的小說改編。

德古拉2025

　　一位扮演德古拉的演員在餐廳表演中臨陣脫逃，引發了一場混亂的追逐戰——游客與店主們集體圍剿這名"吸血鬼"。與此同時，AI軟件生成著德古拉故事的萬花筒：從社會評論到未來主義改編，編織出重新定義這一傳奇角色的敘事圖譜。

等待方舟

　　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.

大進軍——席卷大西南

 解放戰爭后期，隨著三大戰役的勝利結束，黨中央、毛主席戰略決策，令劉伯承（傅學誠 飾）、鄧小平（盧奇 飾）率二野及四野一部，向湘鄂黔川挺進，對盤距在西南的殘敵圍而殲之。南下途中，鄧小平向邂逅的鐵路專家詢問成渝鐵路的建設問題，并給南下部隊及時上政治教育課，貫徹毛主席“將革命進行到底”的偉大教導。劉伯承率部粉碎蔣介石（趙恒多 飾）的陰謀，巧渡烏江，活捉敵兵團司令，突破白馬山防線，解放西南重鎮重慶。國民黨西康省主席劉文輝（楊次禹 飾）、軍政長官鄧錫侯（丁笑宜 飾）等高級將領紛紛通電起義，蔣介石丟失了他在大陸的最后屏障，無奈之下，逃奔臺灣......

厭女癥

本作は不気味な洋館を舞臺に、呪われた事件にまつわる物語を演じる2人の女優を軸にしたホラー。女優で劇作家のナオミは一夏借りた山荘で、かつて自分の夫を略奪した女優ミズキを呼び寄せ、芝居の稽古を始める。題材となるのは、ある謎めいた母親殺しの事件だった。ミズキは母親を殺した娘の役を演じるにつれて、事件が起きた場所はこの屋敷ではないかと疑い始める。