零零妻:呻吟交战

　　影片《灵异医院》讲述的是一个有着不堪过去的女人在一家新近倒闭关门的医院找到了一份核对病人简历复印件的工作，而孤独一人在隔绝的医院值夜班的过程中她经历了一些神秘事件。有所警觉的她通过这些事件发现医院可能和近日出现的谋杀案有关，而要破解这些谜团，首先她需要仔细梳理一下自己混乱的过去。

本片改编自足立绅同名小说，电影版是包括未公开场景的导演剪辑版本。年过40却依然不受欢迎的编剧、没有收入的废柴丈夫·柳田豪太（风间俊介 饰），与吃软饭一样的丈夫和儿子一起维持生活、拒绝丈夫的邀请、还破口大骂的可怕妻子·柳田千花（MEGUMI 饰），两人之间展开了又笑又哭的夫妇故事。

　　资深电视人甘国亮和《跳灰》新浪潮电影人梁普智联合导演，1988年喜剧《继续跳舞》由缪骞人、新马师曾、曾志伟、吴耀汉、黄沾、李香琴、孟海、林忆莲和林建明主演，片中缪骞人更一人饰演两角，分别是孖生姊妹长娥和次娥。次娥本来住在精神病院中，但是她用巧计将长娥骗入院中，并对调身份，然後到社会上寻找负心的前夫。　　故事讲述次娥在过程中遇上了单恋长娥的邮差，又因看风水而认识了富翁唐沙翁。三人之间竟然相处融洽。而长娥本来只想在院中作短暂的停留，但是每日接触稀奇古怪的医护人员和病人後，竟然发现这种生活别有乐趣，逐渐淡忘外界的一切，包括自己的未婚夫在内……

　　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.