MINAMO Minamo4 渚の羽衣天女

　　1997年，一部來自挪威的驚悚片《失眠者》上映后獲得好評，《芝加哥太陽報》的著名影評人羅杰，艾伯特給出了3星半的高分，他盛贊該片“不僅僅是一部驚悚片或動作片，而是一次心理學上的探索與學習”。兩犯罪調查者到挪威北方一個鎮幫助解決一個年輕的女孩的謀殺案，誰知陷入了巨大的困境之中。

網壇新星Zosia，綽號Just Sophie，發現她的男朋友，流行的YouTuber Komfi有外遇。當背叛曝光，普德萊克被揭露時，女孩決定接受深受網友喜愛的維奧拉的邀請，和她一起去國外旅行，以獲得贊助商的錢。Zosia訪問了塞浦路斯、伊維薩島、馬耳他、希臘和意大利的獨家度假村，為粉絲的影響力和關注而戰，加入了波蘭影響者的精英行列。不幸的是，當她的前男友與性感的健身博主寶拉有染時，她與前男友的愛情丑聞變得越來越大，維奧拉的黑暗過去又回來困擾著她。當有趣的細節和隱藏的秘密浮出水面時，Zosia將面臨一個難以接受的事實，即她如此渴望屬于的環境。

　　王爾德飾演一名復仇天使，幫助受害者們向施虐者復仇。

　　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.