妻子的谅解

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.

鬼镜

警探本•卡森（Kiefer Sutherland 基弗•萨瑟兰 饰）因枪杀同事被迫从纽约警察局提前退休，他的婚姻也随之破裂。落魄的本暂住在妹妹安琪（Amy Smart 饰）的公寓里，终日借酒浇愁。一段时间沉沦过后，本重抖精神，找到了一份保安的工作。他所供职的五月花购物商场五年前曾被大火毁于一旦，令他倍感奇怪的是，在这座焦黑的建筑物中，那一面面镜子却格外明亮。　　数日后，本在商场的镜子上发现奇怪的手印，而次日亦在妹妹家的镜子上见到恐怖的景象。接下来的日子里，恐怖事件接连发生……

鬼眨眼

　　A filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story is real and release it as a work of his own, he loses himself and the film crew following him into his project.

1863起义者

我们是伯利恒

　　2014年，阿根廷图库曼省；一名年轻女性因剧烈腹痛入院，当时她并不知道自己已有身孕。醒来时，她发现自己被手铐铐在轮床上，周围全是警察。她被指控自行堕胎，在拘留两年后，因加重杀人罪被判处八年监禁。　　图库曼省的一位女律师将为她的自由而战，数千名女性与众多组织纷纷声援，她们团结起来，试图改变历史的走向。

SPEC：翔

　　经过长时间的休整，治疗眼伤的濑文焚流（加濑亮 饰）终于随着当麻（户田惠梨香 饰）重返阔别已久的未详，只是此时来自公安部公安五课的市柳（でんでん 饰）和吉川（北村一辉 饰）握得实权，令濑文等人颇为气闷。与此同时，在市井算命的觉被一掌握瞬间移动能力的黑衣男子射杀，同时遇害的还有觉的保镖以及几名无辜市民。父母双双遇害而作为幸存者并且目击了黑衣人真实容颜的少女久远望（谷村美月 饰）便成为对方追杀的目标。为了保护小望，未详同仁通力合作，并持续追索黑衣人的真面目以及其背后的阴谋。在此期间，当麻也展示了其不为人知的SPEC。一场斗智斗勇的战斗拉开了序幕……

诚聘保姆

 美丽少女安吉•阿尔布莱特（莎拉•汤普森 Sarah Thompson 饰）独自到位于偏远山区小镇的亚当斯学院求学。这里看似安宁，却是个地道的危险所在，一段时间内不断传出女孩失踪并被杀害的消息。某天，安吉在学校布告栏看到招聘保姆的通知。为了赚取生活费，她前往通知上所写的农庄应聘。雇主是年轻的史丹顿夫妇吉姆（布鲁斯•托马斯 Bruce Thomas 饰）和瓦尔莉特（Kristen Dalton 饰），他们即将参加农场举行的集会，因此招聘保姆照看他们年幼的儿子山姆（凯伊•卡斯特 Kai Caster 饰）。应聘当夜，山姆很早上床睡觉，安吉则独自一人看书，这一晚似乎平静轻松。但随之后来的一系列事件随即引起安吉的恐慌：默不作声的骚扰电话、不断撞击的房门、沉默冷静的山姆、经常尾随安吉的神秘男子。这一切的背后，仿佛隐藏着更为恐怖的秘密……