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等待方舟

　　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.

Y计划

人生低谷迫使两位女子偷盗数百万黄金——这是他们人生中最后一次生死攸关的冒险。                                                                      　　美善（Mi Seon）和道静（Do Gyeong）或许早已习惯在首尔江南区最危险的地段挣扎求生，但这并不意味着她们已经安于此地。除了彼此之外，两位好友只能拼命攒钱，想要摆脱危险的生活方式。然而，就在“退休”指日可待之际，世界却背叛了她们，粉碎了她们的希望。在绝路边缘，她们在江南区发现了一笔隐藏的财富，其中包括赃款和黄金——并将所有赌注押在了人生中最后一次豪赌上。

我的野蛮同学

　　在一间教学素质低下的学校里，有一个不成文的传统：学生们凡是遇到了争执，都不能告诉老师家长，只能自己用拳头解决。石头（谢霆锋 饰）是最能打的一个同学，一次帮助富家子Edward（冯德伦 饰）解围，彼此成为朋友，二人也因此得罪了学校里的好战分子。阿凤（容祖儿 饰）一直暗恋既帅气学习有出色的Edward，而Edward认为学生最紧要是学习，会考时间逼近，Edward便义务帮助石头与阿凤补习。由于家境富有，Edward竟然在考试当天被绑架了，石头决心把他救回……

作恶者

在她18岁生日那天，坚强的女孩乔尼吃了一个由她的阿姨根据一个神奇的家庭食谱烤的蛋糕，并经历了一个彻底的变形。随着几个同学失踪，一个血腥的成长故事发生了。

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