舢舨92之爱的出航

　　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.

 故事发生在一个南部小镇的棉织厂，诺玛（莎莉·菲尔德 Sally Field 饰）和她的家人都在这里工作。这个工厂的工作环境异常恶劣，工人们每天都经受着资本家的无情剥削和艰辛劳动。面对这种不公平的待遇，工人们备受压迫和困扰。为了改变这种状况，总工会派来了一名经验丰富的组织者，希望能够协助当地工人组织自己的工会，为工人们争取更好的待遇和权益。然而，工人们对组织者的到来持有怀疑态度，他们心存疑虑，担心这只是一个无望的尝试。组织者面临着许多困难和挑战。工人们对他进行冷嘲热讽，老板则用各种无理阻拦来阻碍工会的成立。看到这一切，诺玛内心充满了愤慨和不满。她是一个有着坚强意志的女性，对不合理的事物总是敢于挑战。受到组织者的激励和影响，诺玛最终选择站出来，成为了改变的先锋。

故事发生在马尼拉一处精英高尔夫球场与乡村俱乐部的封闭生态中：在俱乐部打工的“发球童”伊莎贝尔对俱乐部主席帕兰卡医生产生难以名状的吸引，但当她逐步拼凑出俱乐部光洁表象下的暴力真相时，她意识到这段“迷恋”其实牵连着更阴暗的共同过往。