VN.014 慕羽茜

　　饱受折磨的隐士内维亚与神秘莫测的陌生人芙蕾雅，开启了一段风景如画的公路旅行，却失控陷入混乱。在竭力逃离过往的过程中，她们的友谊在每一次转弯处接受考验——而所有道路都指向一个令人震惊的真相。

改编自二宫敦人的超人气恐怖小说《恶鬼病毒》，讲述YouTuber内川智樹带着他的朋友日名子、颯太和奈々枝来到传闻中有着神秘失踪事件的旧石尾村拍摄一段调查都市传说的视频。几天后，警方在村外的一条隧道附近发现了四人租用的汽车，而在现场发现的一台摄像机则记录下了令人震惊的画面。紧锁的房屋、身着武装制服的儿童、被关起来的成年人，以及在新月之夜发病的成年人......这个村子里究竟发生了什么？

　　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.

 影片以重复加碎片式的感官叙事手法，讲述了年迈且身患疾病的安东尼（安东尼·霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰）正在面临一项艰难的人生选择——是搬到养老院还是接受女儿寻找的新护工。在这个过程中，安东尼发现自己仿佛进入了一场奇怪的时空之旅，错乱的记忆和时间线交织出一段段匪夷所思的故事，而一个个陌生又熟悉的人也让他陷入迷茫。影片根据法国小说家兼剧作家佛罗莱恩·泽勒的舞台剧《父亲》改编。