女人是男人的未来

　　十八岁女孩玛丽亚（英迪娅·埃斯利 饰）经常受到同学欺负，使她变得自卑，害怕。有一天她发现镜子里的另一个她，艾兰。　　艾兰（英迪娅·埃斯利 饰）既勇敢又无畏，帮助玛丽亚开启了复仇之路......

　　“不准奔跑、不准跳水，天黑以后没有救生员值勤，不准游泳。”　　影片根据2014年拍摄的同名短片改编，内心深处希望能够战胜病魔，再度回归美国职棒大联盟打球的雷（怀亚特·拉塞尔 Wyatt Russell 饰）和他的太太伊芙（凯瑞·康顿 Kerry Condon 饰）搬进新家，后院的游泳池不仅让孩子们玩得开心，也能够让他进行物理治疗，然而这栋房子阴暗神秘的过去即将释放一股邪恶力量，把这一家人拉进无法逃脱的恐怖深渊。

　　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.

穿梭纽约市送餐的华人外卖仔，因谋生工具电动单车被盗，生活陷入危机。同时，他的妻女在分离五年后，终于来到纽约重聚。一部书写移民劳工的电影，镜头随着无法停下的外卖单车徘徊飘移，配以幽暗色调的纽约街头，仿佛在高度资本发达的城市中，刻划出边陲移工艰苦曲折的生存轨迹。韩裔加拿大导 演于2022年以短片《老样子》入围戛纳短片竞赛，其后将短片延伸成为其首部剧情长片，不变的是对移民群体的关注。