忠犬八公

 25年前，高中生任娜美（沈恩京 饰）一家从全罗道搬到汉城，娜美入读真德女子高中，因方言浓重怯于开口的娜美幸运的得到了同班大姐头夏春花（姜索拉 饰）的维护，并与围绕在夏春花周围的执着于双眼皮的金玫瑰、满嘴脏话的黄珍熙、梦想成为作家的徐金玉、要成为韩国小姐的俞福姬以及沉默傲慢的美人郑秀智等五人结识。在一次和不良少女团对决之后，春花和娜美等七人组成了“Sunny”团体……多年以后，家庭主妇娜美在去医院探望母亲时偶然重逢了身患绝症住院的春花，后者希望在生命的最后两个月内，能够再见当年的Sunny成员。娜美找到金玫瑰，两人委托私家侦探寻找当年的同伴，而那些关于青春的回忆，也在一个个熟悉的名姓后面再次被唤醒。

洛杉矶警探乔瑟夫（克莱格·谢菲尔 饰）是个标准败类，嗑药嗑得比谁都勤快，调查命案不忘顺手牵羊，更枉顾家中妻小，专搞迷人可爱的阻街女郎。一宗幼童谋杀案现场，乔瑟夫捡回一只受过诅咒的奇异盒子，打开后怪事不断一桩接一桩：昨夜搞上的妓女意外身亡，他瞬间成为头号嫌疑犯；一连串似幻似真的恐怖体验更不断尾随，无脸怪人四处追杀人群，《养鬼吃人》系列当家猛鬼－针头鬼（Pinhead）也重出江湖，一个头两个大的乔瑟夫该如何解决这谜一般的虚实梦魇？本片改编自克里夫巴克（Clive Barker）恐怖小说「受地狱羁绊之心」The Hellbound Heart，这颗坏心肠的主人正是故事男主角乔瑟夫，身为警察的他自身行为不检点也罢，涉嫌谋杀难以脱罪的他竟然嫁祸好同事，善恶终有报，恶徒乔瑟夫果然陷入万劫不复的魔鬼梦魇，活著比死更痛苦。

2014年的法国迎来同性婚姻合法化。当妻子腹中孕育着新生命时，塞琳娜一边为争取收养资格收集证明材料，一边直面内心对母职的认知冲突。

　　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.