被刻上淫紋的精靈

　　在完全印度文化的背景下，女主安努舒卡·莎瑪試過了殺人的公路驚悚片和與鬼魂相關的喜劇片后，在她制片的第三部作品中講了一個西方惡魔的故事?！　淖诮虅萘Φ淖凡吨袃e幸逃生的惡魔之女，在母親的保護下，在山林中活到二十幾歲。母親去世后，女孩走進城市，被善良內向的男人收留?！　∵@是一個異類不惜付出一切渴望融入人類生活，渴望愛情的故事。聯想到所有宗教都奉行的五花八門的女性禁忌，聯想到女孩的母親是因為被強迫才懷上了她，不禁感嘆:也許所有女人都是主流社會眼中的惡魔。因為愛，女人能擁有摧毀一切的力量;因為愛，女人能放下一切仇恨;因為愛，女人能犧牲一切，包括自己。世界就是被這樣的惡魔支撐著的。想盡辦法把她們趕盡殺絕的人，和她們自己，誰是真正的惡魔?作為低成本獨立制片的恐怖電影，聲效化妝場景什么的，都沒什么毛病，都在及格線以上。不過如果不像我一樣對故事這么煽情，觀眾應該會覺得故事太單薄，不夠刺激。一些觀眾群體可能會覺得不太舒服。畢竟在這部電影中，心中有愛的惡魔之女不是真的惡魔，那些站在正義一方的驅魔人才是。

　　十三，一個聽起來就有些陰冷的數字。在一座大廈的第十三層，科學家道格拉斯?霍爾（克雷戈?比克飾）和漢農?富勒（阿明?繆勒－斯塔爾飾）用電腦模擬出一個逼真的1937年的洛杉磯，他們可以通過電腦進入這個虛擬世界，真實地體驗1937年的生活與自己。然而一個夜里，富勒被人殺死，種種線索都表明似乎是霍爾所為?？苫魻枀s對當天夜里的事情全無記憶。這時一個自稱是富勒女兒的女人又神秘出現，可霍爾從未聽富勒說過自己有女兒……為了找到兇手明曉真相，霍爾循著富勒留下的線索來到虛擬世界中，他離真相越來越近了……近到窒息……

5個寄養兄弟姐妹團聚回憶，突然經歷了一場災難。最小的妹妹無法得救。事故發生后，四個兄弟姐妹被最小的妹妹嚇壞了。靈媒說，小妹妹不冷靜，她有話要說。四個兄弟姐妹發現了，這是什么？

　　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.