伪宗教的奴隶

在多年前的一段经历后回到法国，钢琴家马蒂亚斯·福格勒将再次与他的导师埃伦取得联系，为一场音乐会做准备。在一座公园里，他将邂逅一个与自己长得一模一样的孩子，而这个孩子会把他引向克洛丁——一位他曾在某个时代深爱过的女人。

　　一位邪恶的马戏团老板在几位高中生的小镇上演“鬼屋”，他们必须抗拒他的魔咒。

一名男子在加利福尼亚沙漠徒步旅行时，发现自己的车不见了。当他四处寻找时，他跟着一个流浪的男孩，最终来到了一个年轻女子占据的偏远小屋。两人之间发生了一种奇怪的动态，伴随着几次与威胁女孩的男孩的暴力冲突。当这个男人意识到他掉进了一个精心设计的陷阱时，想要避免他将要遭受的可怕后果已经太晚了。《种子》是作家兼导演巴纳比·克莱的一部大胆、噩梦般的处女作，他的著名mv作品包括Gnarls Barkley的歌曲、“YYYs”等。这部慢热的震撼剧讲述了有毒的男子气概和我们对孤立的恐惧，它有效地呈现了一个男人在面对绝望和生存之战时心理的恶化。作为新人，巴纳比·克莱是一位不可忽视的导演。(南宗锡)

　　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.