女優的告白

 十年前，發生了震撼世界的重大事件“第一次愛之夏”。蘭頓失去了他的父親阿德洛克，現在已經在邊境城鎮貝爾福雷斯特參加了塔州聯盟軍校。被稱贊為英雄的已故父親。 什么都沒有的單調日常。蘭頓身邊的一切都很悶。 但在蘭頓面前，世界上最古老的LFO尼爾瓦修突然出現。 從駕駛艙出 現的是優萊卡。蘭頓和優萊卡的旅程將在哪里結束？

　　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.

　　Mikheil Chiaureli是斯大林的御用導演，《攻克柏林》長達近五個小時，分上下兩部，處處著重突出最高統帥的高瞻遠矚。影片結尾，斯大林乘飛機抵達陷落的柏林，接受蘇軍的歡呼。其實這是“藝術虛構”。和《斯大林格勒戰役》一樣，這場實際主要由朱可夫將軍指揮的戰役，影片中絲毫沒有他的影子。當時朱可夫已經因為功高震主，被羅織罪名，發配到烏拉爾軍區去了，這是1946年的事。這部1949年的電影很自然地就將朱可夫的功勞“藝術虛構”到偉大領袖的頭上了。　　因為這部影片，導演連續獲得了兩次國家獎金，包括1950年的斯大林獎金。中國觀眾熟悉的《難忘的1919》（1952）也是出自這位導演的手筆。值得一提的是，這兩部影片都是由蘇聯作曲家肖斯塔科維奇譜曲的。

　　米勒一家似乎擁有所有人都夢寐以求的生活：豪宅、跑車、美滿的家庭。在一個普通的日子，美麗的妻子薩拉（妮可·基德曼 Nicole Kidman 飾）迎接出差回家的丈夫，成功的鉆石采購商凱爾（尼古拉斯·凱奇 Nicolas Cage 飾）。凱爾回家的同時青春期的女兒則艾弗瑞（麗亞娜·萊伯拉托 Liana Liberato 飾）瞞著父母偷偷溜出家門去參加朋友家的派對?？墒翘煊胁粶y風云，一伙由四人組成的搶劫團伙闖進米勒家，綁架了夫婦二人欲實施搶劫。艾弗瑞參加完派對回家也不幸撞到了家中正在發生的悲劇。面對喪心病狂的劫匪，米勒一家將怎樣解除危機？他們是否會安然無恙？而這看似普通的搶劫背后是否又有不為人知的陰謀和骯臟的秘密？