江南媳妇

　　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.

　　到2068年，地球上的臭氧消失了，因此，猛烈的、无法控制的风暴正在夷平它的表面。一小群军事幸存者是人类的最后的捍卫者,当队长约翰庭院是找到一份工作前战友拉皮埃尔,他现在是受雇于帝国,一个eco-profiteer,为了拯救他的父亲和其他几位幸存者中庭同意。他和一小群雇佣兵要闯入几乎不可渗透的文森特遗产和找回无价的“艺术”，储存在那里的启示之前。但是有一种致命的电脑控制的防御系统叫做“加密”，他们必须绕过它，还有一个杀手机器人叫做Rook &类似人类的全息安全主管Diana，她掌握着地球完全毁灭的钥匙——或者说是完全的拯救。

 1）魔术师但丁依靠神秘的斗篷在时尚都会挣下超高的人气，但是斗篷中藏着可怕的秘密，但丁则用录像记录下了一切。直到某天助理斯卡莉特将录像带交给警方，一切昭然若揭；2）野生科学家阿方索制造了一个连通平行空间的大门，他和另一个世界的自己交换空间，到对方的世界进行15分钟的探险，却发现彼此的世界有着天壤之别。3）三个热衷做极限运动的年轻人偶然来到一处画着神秘图案的场所玩耍，不知不觉中遭到一群恐怖之人的包围和袭击；夜幕下的城市突然响起刺耳的警笛声，警方和疯狂逃跑的冰淇淋车展开夺命追逐。卡文和女友艾瑞丝外出张望，谁知一转眼艾瑞丝竟消失不见，卡文疯了一般四下寻找。现代化的社会，人们依赖影像大刷存在感，却都变成了转瞬即逝的数据碎片……

　　Following her mother’s death, manga artist Soriya travels to her ancestral home in Phnom Penh, with hopes of reconnecting with her distant family and using the visit as inspiration for her work. All goes well initially. Renting an apartment in Metta, a rundown Khmer Rouge-era housing complex, her visit to her maternal relatives finds her welcomed with open arms. But Soriya’s waking hours in the apartment and its surroundings are punctuated by terrifying, bloody visions, almost as though she were a conduit for horrors of the past wanting to seep into the present.　　Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea’s blood-chilling psychological horror explores a personal and political past through the present, transforming a characterful space into an insidious environment. Surrounded by modern high-rises, this decrepit structure, with its brutalist architecture and peeling surfaces, is a relic from a dark period in history whose painful memories it has absorbed. In tracing Soriya’s ominous journey back to her roots, Tenement hints at a necessary reckoning with Cambodia’s political past without overplaying its historical dimension. It’s an impressive work from a woefully underrepresented national cinema.