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斯图尔特和尼克经朋友介绍相亲,并在当地一家小餐馆里度过了一个神奇的夜晚。他们之间有着非常微妙的感觉。但是他们的家庭、宗教背景却有着极大的分歧
斯图尔特和尼克经朋友介绍相亲,并在当地一家小餐馆里度过了一个神奇的夜晚。他们之间有着非常微妙的感觉。但是他们的家庭、宗教背景却有着极大的分歧
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.
兰斯林(丹尼斯·奎德 Dennis Quaid 饰)警官同时也是一个单身父亲,因公务繁忙,他无暇照顾两个儿子,大儿子亚历克斯无形中时常扮演父亲的角色。最近兰斯林被一桩连续杀人案缠住,每个凶案现场都发现了至少四名嫌疑人的踪迹,并且统一留下了“过来看”的血色留言,死者死于悬挂的状态充满了宗教意味,兰斯林从人体悬挂的铁架入手,发现这一干罪犯以杀人作为宗教仪式,并且以启示录中记载的“天启四骑士”自居。第一个受害者的华裔养女克里斯汀(章子怡 饰)主动找到兰斯林,坦承了自己与连续杀人案的关系,但是这不能阻止更多人受害,兰斯林惊见自己最不愿意看到的事情发生了……
身陷囹圄的特种兵麦克(杜夫·龙格尔 Dolph Lundgren 饰)终于迎来了被保释的那一天,然而,令麦克没有想到的是,保释他的不是别人,居然是美国大使馆的官员克莱夫(迈克尔·帕尔 Michael Paré 饰)。原来,有一项充满了危险和变数的任务摆在眼前,而身经百战经验丰富的麦克则是这项任务最合适的执行者。 根据提示,麦克需要去营救一位名叫安娜(吉娜·玛丽 Gina Marie 饰)的女子,安娜遭到了武装绑架,有可能被敌方洗了脑。而当麦克找到安娜时,安娜却告诉麦克她被绑架一说是子虚乌有,而麦克要将她带走的行为才是真正的绑架。安娜和克莱夫之间,一定有一个人在说谎,没过多久,陷入了困惑之中麦克就发现,他和安娜已经成为了众矢之的。
莫琳·达巴格是一位母亲,当她的前夫绑架了他们的小女儿阿米娜并消失在中东时,她的世界崩溃了。绝望而无情的莫琳与罗伯森合作,罗伯森是一名经验丰富的前海军陆战队员,也是儿童绑架案件的专家。这部电影以贝鲁特动荡的背景为背景,讲述了莫琳和罗伯逊陷入一个充满国际间谍、腐败和背叛的阴暗世界。随着时间的流逝,风险高得不可思议,莫琳必须在与时间的赛跑中面对不可能的选择。本片是一段紧张而感性的旅程,探索了一位母亲为拯救孩子所做的努力,即使她在每个转折点都面临着隐藏的危险。