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懸案密碼4

　　丹麥懸疑犯罪片，該片刷新丹麥國產片票房紀錄，是系列電影《懸案密碼》的第四部，也是最終章，《懸案密碼》系列改編自丹麥小說家尤西·阿德勒-奧爾森（JussiAdler-Olsen）的同名小說，

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　　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.

現鈔風暴

天降橫財！ ？一場現鈔風暴正襲卷而來！銀行搶匪駕車逃亡時遭遇龍卷風，車子撞毀，所有贓物都被卷入漏斗云中。兩名科學家和一位健談的網紅救出了劫匪，并由此展開了一段滑稽的搶現鈔之旅。

黑暗深處

 菜鳥上班第一天就聽到老鳥說，最近礦場有人失蹤或重傷。礦場老板告訴他們，只要查明真相愿意給予豐厚賞金。在來到事發礦區后，他們卻看到白骨與干枯血跡。嚇得一群人試圖回到地面，卻發現入口意外被堵死，同伴還被嗜血怪物襲擊。漆黑的地下，怪物在身后逼近，他們能否就此逃脫，誘惑是成為怪物口中的佳肴？

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