肉体赎罪：敞开后门的邻家女人

本片剧情依然围绕遗体送还公司“天使之心”展开。社长伊泽那美得知8年前身亡的恋人或许仍在世而心神动摇。万圣节期间，公司成员奔赴世界各地处理送还事务：有人面对因婴儿猝死而自责的母亲，有人护送突然离世的明星回国，也有人送别在旅途中去世的青年。那美在墨西哥执行任务时，一边处理逝者身后事，一边被旧日恋情的线索牵动，在生死与思念交织中重新审视自己的内心。

　　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.

 两个值守夜班的“倒霉蛋”甜点心（乔·基瑞 饰）和内奥米（乔治娜·坎贝尔 饰），意外发现了疯狂繁殖的外星寄生真菌，无福消受这顿重口加班餐的二人发出求救信号。“淡淡死感”的退休特工罗伯特（连姆·尼森 饰）被迫再就业，重新上岗拯救即将被真菌腐蚀的世界。他们一边躲避着因寄生而绿液四溅的宿主们，一边和翻涌的肠胃做斗争，在一阵阵爆浆声中大开“惊喜盲盒”。这组画风迥异的“临时战友”能否阻挡这场末日浩劫？谁又能活着走出这个惊魂之夜……

格拉迪丝是一位五十多岁的女性，生活在社会的边缘，没有住所、没有医保卡、没有银行账户。对她来说，一切都无关紧要，甚至对于性、酒精或跳舞的享受也都不重要。一天早上，她偶然遇到了尤金妮，一位高中时的朋友。尤金妮试图违背她的意愿去帮助她。