花生酱少年的懵懂自白

 影片改编自Samuel D. Hunter创作的同名戏剧，讲述在爱达荷州乡村一个破旧的公寓里，重达272公斤的英语教师查理（布兰登·费舍 饰）隐居避世，固执、坚决地要把自己吃死。查理在中年时期为了同性情人抛弃家人，但情人过世后因为悲伤和内疚暴饮暴食，并且尝试与17岁的女儿艾莉（萨迪·辛克 饰）修复关系。随着查理越来越接近不可避免的命运，他的朋友丽兹（周洪 饰），一个愤世嫉俗的无神论者护士，以及埃尔德·托马斯（泰·辛普金斯 饰），一个年轻的传教士都试图在查理身上找到能被拯救的意志，无论是肉体上还是精神上。然而，只有与查理关系疏远的女儿艾莉才能让他看到目前绝望状态之外的未来，艾莉虽然尖酸刻薄、充满仇恨、浑身是刺，查理却能在她身上找到最后一次赎罪的机会，甚至可能是一丝希望。

　　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.

本片改编自同名漫画，背景设定在提倡支持艺术家移居的海边城市，讲述了悠哉生活的14岁美术社员奏介和他的伙伴们，在奇怪的“艺术家”们来来常常的海边街道上，一边做着自己喜欢的东西，一边用无限的想象力让世界变得愉快。

因丢失尸体和爱人，罗伯特（Daktari Lorenz 饰）在绝望中以极其惨烈的方式自杀身亡。然而他的尸体并未因此得到宁静，仿佛命中注定一般，才被葬入黄土不久的罗伯特又被妙龄女郎莫妮卡（Monika M. 饰）挖了出来。莫妮卡和罗伯特一样，对死尸有着深深的迷恋，她和死去的罗伯特仿佛爱人似的生活在一起。　　某晚，莫妮卡在电影院门口邂逅马克（Mark Reeder 饰），两人随即开始交往。看似浪漫的爱情虽然让莫妮卡一度想要改掉怪异的爱好，但她仍然无法接受爱情的索然无味。直到某天，马克发现了女友的秘密，他们的关系开始朝着不可预测的方向发展……