情奋

悭钱家族

　　典型都市女性Diana（郑裕玲 饰）有着骄人的事业成绩，也积极经营着自己的爱情。可是香港经济不景气，她与同公司的小职员韦大汉（曾志伟 饰）都在了裁员的名单上。韦大汉早年妻子因为好赌离家出走，丢下了女儿千华（杨千嬅 饰）及小儿子万华需要供养。他向儿女隐瞒自己已经被解雇的事实，可是Diana的出现让千华及弟弟都知道了爸爸的真实情况。原来Diana的出现是想跟他们参加一个家庭制的游戏，只有胜出游戏，电视台便会原价收购他们的负资产业。Diana是一个自私冷酷的人，在游戏的过程中，被大汉付出在儿女身上的感情而改变了她。千华也在游戏中与导演（陈奕迅 饰）产生了感情。游戏最终由他们胜出，可是千华亲生母亲的出现使局面彻底改变了……

赤脚大仙

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.

日夜男女

　　一对从外地来到北京打拼的陌生男女由于被骗不得已合租一间地下室，并同睡一张床引发的一段啼笑皆非的故事，与其他合租不同的是两人分时段合租，男孩晚上住，女孩白天住。那么两人如何被骗，又是怎样住在一起，女孩晚上又在做什么？而当这张床又被笨贼盯上，几人围绕这张床又会发生怎样出人意料的故事呢？很快我们就能得到答案。 该剧针对性强，受众度广，笑点密集，情节曲折幽默，搞笑而不搞怪，通俗而不低俗。