偷窥无罪4：淫人师表

　　突尼斯导演考塞尔·本·哈尼亚将把巴勒斯坦六岁女童欣德·拉贾布的悲剧搬上银幕。2024年1月29日，欣德乘坐的车辆在加沙遭以色列军队袭击，她被困车中通过电话绝望求救，12天后被发现与家人一同遇难。影片将追溯这通生死未卜的求救通话背后，一个幼小生命在战争废墟中的最后时刻。                        

　　龙剑北因为要筹钱救自己病重的妹妹，在一次机缘巧合之下，接触到神秘组织黑羽会，黑羽会不断在做人体实验，企图造出拥有超能力的改造人。为了钱，龙剑北接受超能力改造。由于控制不了体内的超能力，龙剑北拜了一位老者为师，学习驾驭超能力，学会了如来神掌，并结识了一位武林中的名门正派，二人一同上路，展开了各种紧张刺激的冒险……

　　晴朗的一天，三年前痛失男友的珍娜（丝柯·泰勒-考普顿 Scout Taylor-Compton 饰）与好友瑞妮（克里斯蒂娜·尤罗尔 Christina Ulloa 饰）、迈克（迈克尔·科彭 Michael Copon 饰）以及新结识的帅气青年伊安（特拉维斯·范·文克 Travis Van Winkle 饰）前往某个乡村，参加当地举行的五月节。湖畔小屋，笑语欢歌，青年男女们纵情欢乐，只有珍娜强颜欢笑，似乎久久无法从三年前的惨剧中走出。随着夜幕降临，四人走入桑拿室，体会无上的蒸汽享受，而危机也正一步步向他们迫近。在此期间，迈克和瑞妮突然爆发争吵，前者夺门而出，大发雷霆，而瑞妮和珍娜、伊安稍后却发现，他们三人却被意外锁在桑拿室中。　　温度逐渐升高，而死神的脚步越来越近……

　　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.