我激情如火

　　北川恵海人气小说《不干了，我开除了黑心公司》电影化，成岛出执导，福士苍汰主演，工藤阿须加、黑木华、小池荣子、吉田纲太郎等在片中出演。讲述了青山隆在公司被压迫精神压力过大，但被朋友山本的活力感染又恢复了自信，但隆却得知真正山本三年前就自杀了……

　　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.

　　名不见经传的钢琴家安迪（马提亚斯·施维赫夫 Matthias Schweighöfer 饰）和从未干过什么正经事整天游手好闲的本诺（弗洛里安·大卫·菲茨 Florian David Fitz 饰），这两个个性迥异似乎永远都不会有交集的人，相识于病房之中，两人都患上了无法治愈的绝症，时日无多。　　在本诺的怂恿之下，安迪决定和他一起逃出病房，来一趟充满了阳光和激情的非洲之旅，他们要尽情享受轰轰烈烈毫无顾忌的人生，才能甘心接收死亡的终结。就这样，两个“亡命之徒”踏上了他们的旅途，一路上，疯狂的两人制造了数不清的麻烦和笑料，而他们糟糕的健康状况，亦令两人屡屡同死神擦肩而过。最终，当他们抵达了目的地时，又会有怎样的一番景象在等待着两人呢？

　　A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray when his family is viciously threatened.