玛利亚·马基南的秘密

　　一起连环凶杀案吸引了警长索恩（大卫·莫瑞瑟 David Morrissey 饰）的注意，这位穷凶极恶的凶手手中已经有了三条人命，然而，第四名受害者却侥幸逃过一死。警方和民众都认为这是凶手的百密一疏造就的结果。然而，可怕的是，没过多久，索恩就发现，犯错的不是凶手，而恰恰是自己，因为尽管保住了一命，但这位幸存者却无法提供任何情报。　　几起在同一时间、使用同一手法在两个不同地点作案的谋杀案让警长索恩十分警觉，随着时间的推移，迷雾渐渐拨开，他发现，自己所要面对的并非仅仅一名嗜血残暴的杀人魔王，而是两个在暗地里相互勾结、相互鼓励的反社会分子。

人到中年的车仔拥有一间网吧，但在手机游戏的冲击下，早已人气不再；三十未到的电竞选手邦少正在面对实力下滑的职业困境；单亲家庭长大的霏霏大学毕业超过五年，还未有过一份稳定工作。曾是动作巨星的八爷因为妻子阿兰出现脑退化，年过70的二人尝试利用电子游戏来锻炼大脑。一张全港电竞赛的征集海报，让想要拯救网吧的车仔决定组队。车仔、霏霏、八爷，三个新手再加上一个急于证明自己的邦少，Happy Hour电竞队正式成立。亲情、友情的羁绊化作电竞赛场的搏杀，一场不可能完成的战斗，让心怀梦想的他们不再抱憾。

　　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.

　　想过自己为何会单身吗？单身理由千百种，有人是因为爱抱怨，有人是因为太花心，也有人是因为太文青。但小琳（沛派琳丹拉帕彭 饰）的理由竟是因为「看得到鬼」。被甩之后，她决定收拾心情、揹起行囊，一人踏上失恋疗伤之旅。小琳孤身前往泰北的丘媚潘步道疗伤，因此遇见小普（马力欧莫瑞尔 饰演），这个在感情和工作方面双双受挫的鲁蛇编剧，为了寻找写鬼片剧本的灵感，想找看得到鬼的人帮忙，两个低潮的人意外相遇，并展开了一连串的冒险。