隔墙花

　　为了帮助好友文斯（斯蒂芬·格拉汉姆 Stephen Graham 饰）度过伤心的离婚，一群好友尼尔（丹尼·戴尔 Danny Dyer 饰）、科勒雷（比利·穆瑞 Billy Murray 饰）、米奇（洛尔·克拉克 Noel Clarke 饰）、马特（李·恩格里比 Lee Ingleby 饰）等人带着他前往一偏僻小镇度假。本以为去的是人间天堂，结果他们却发现这里根本就是地狱，因为这里的女人都染上了怪病，会像僵尸一样袭击、吃掉所有男人。尽管这些男人平时都是唯唯诺诺的“妻管严”，但是面对女僵尸他们绝不手软，于是一场好好的度假彻底沦为了爷们儿大战女僵尸的战争。

　　1945年，第二次世界大战接近尾声，轴心国已成强弩之末，败局已定。许多战争中被俘虏的日本士兵经过改造后，陆续踏上回国的旅途，这其中便包括罗圈腿中村下等兵（潘长江 饰）。然而，即使在这垂死关头，帝国主义的贪婪仍旧没有收敛。轮椅太君（胡晓光 饰）伤愈出院，亲自负责指挥战舰阿多丸运送伤兵回国的重任，但是阿多丸还有一个秘密任务，那就是将从中国劫掠来的文物偷运出境。这个秘密被小刘（刘小微 饰）的父亲——一个文物老专家所得知，他掌握着所有文物的清单，也因此遭到日寇的追杀。临死之际，老教授将藏有清单的可乐瓶交给担任联络员的郭大叔（郭达 饰）。侦知到日本人的阴谋，八路军以及重庆方面的势力都行动起来。　　而在这一过程中，更大的阴谋也悄悄浮出水面……

 在风景秀丽，气候宜人的王冠市，即将举行神奇宝贝足篮世界杯比赛，届时，大批的观众和训练师会涌入此处，整个城市将会陷入一片欢乐的海洋之中。小智（松本梨香 配音）一行人正在前往王冠市的路上，旅途中，他们遇见了名为索罗亚的神秘神奇宝贝，它不仅能够幻化成人类的姿态，还能够通过心电感应和人类交流。小智和索罗亚结伴前行，哪知道王冠市竟然发生了神奇宝贝暴动事件，雷公、炎帝和水君本是城市的守护神，却不知为何向市民们发起了进攻，城市之中一片混乱景象。这一切的始作俑者是名为克林克斯（阵内孝则 配音）的企业家，而他亦是索罗亚想要寻找的同伴。

　　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.