凶宅胭脂

　　墨彩宁（张善南 饰）是一名普通的高中学生，因为班主任（王天宇 饰）就是自家小姨，所以自己的一举一动都逃不过小姨的法眼，平日只好伪装成乖乖学生，但本质上却是一个不折不扣的追星达人。转校生顾天琦（李明源 饰）的到来让她本来平静的生活发生了巨大转变，她发现这位引人注目的同桌竟是偶像顾云凡（区天瑞 饰）的亲弟弟，在顾天琦的嘱咐下，墨彩宁答应保守住这个秘密。可特殊身份的消息还是不胫而走，也因此与闺蜜张公主（郭素洁 饰）产生了误会，为了能让张公主不再难过、顾天琦不再转学，墨彩宁与同学袁迟（范云飞 饰）、同学童辉（李炎峰 饰）等人团结一心解决了困扰。在相处中，墨彩宁决心要成为像顾天琦一样优秀的人。转眼到了寒假，在盛大的烟花下大家树立了各自的人生目标，带着珍贵的友谊走向憧憬的未来……

 A man in solitary confinement for seven years comes out into a world of self-isolation.

　　奥克塔维亚·斯宾瑟将携约翰·浩克斯出演独立惊悚片《小城犯罪》。电影讲述由浩克斯扮演的酗酒前警察偶然发现一具女尸，并不慎将他的家庭至于危险之中，他不得不一边寻找凶手，一边与恶势力作斗争。该片由内尔姆斯兄弟执导，目前正在拍摄中。

　　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.