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链锯人剧场版：蕾塞篇

蓝眼睛米奇

　　米歇尔•法尔盖特（休•格兰特 饰）经营一间拍卖行，他是个温和的英国人，拍卖行的生意一向很好。他感觉成家的时候到了，便向他最爱的女友吉娜（詹姆斯•凯恩 饰）结婚。可是吉娜对结婚一词十分抗拒，她不愿意跟米歇尔结婚。这样使米歇尔疑惑极了，他认为女友是十分爱自己的，为何不能从此一同生活呢？　　直到后来，他才明白了吉娜的苦心。原来吉娜的父亲是一名黑帮老大，深爱着米歇尔的吉娜不愿自己的丈夫被卷进复杂的黑帮环境中。就算米歇尔向吉娜保证自己不会牵涉进去那些麻烦当中。　　可是事情并不如人意，他还是因为这个黑帮岳父惹来了很多麻烦，甚至被警察调查。从此，米歇尔也莫名其妙的成为了黑道中人……

等待方舟

　　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.

小城犯罪

　　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。

圣诞奇遇结良缘

　　故事梗概　　本片为香港德宝电影公司的创业巨制之一，由杰出的摄影指导钟志文升任导演，是一部热闹的浪漫冒险喜剧。内容描述一名地下军火专家制造了一个小型炸弹企图有所不轨，计划被助手知悉，以致他杀人灭口，但却被三名互不认识的平凡寂寞人目睹此事件。两名疯狂杀手奉命追杀三名目击者，他们乃展开逃亡，过程中发挥同舟共济的精神来化解危机。全片是典型以追杀为主戏的娱乐片，但不强调暴力动作，反而有不少惊险笑料。三个主角的个性也纯真好玩，将都市寂寞人偶然碰到刺激遭遇时的反应生动地表现了出来。