杀手柔情

 这是一位始终以两性关系、婚姻道德为主题的电影作者，这部获得奥斯卡最佳外语片的《掏出你的手帕》也不在例外。关于影片，布里耶是这样解释的：“表面上看这是一部怪诞的电影，但实际上这是一部彻底颠倒道德标准的片子，不过表现得比较委婉且具有魅力。如果仔细观察就可以看出，所有的道德价值都被颠倒了，所有的道德传统都被抛到了一边。人物的思想状态正处于一种极端混乱的时期，今天你也许还不会把妻子当作礼物送给别人，但也许将来你就可以做到了。”

一只莱亨鸡从冰冷的工业化养殖场逃离，踏上未知的流浪之旅。它闯入一家家族经营的小餐馆，在鸡舍中找到栖身之所，这里却暗藏人口走私的黑暗交易。母鸡一心筑巢繁衍，为守护未来的蛋对抗贪婪的餐馆老板，在生存本能的驱使下步步为营。与此同时，餐馆里的人类故事暗流涌动，一场悲剧正在悄然上演，母鸡的母性抗争与人类世界的残酷现实，在同一屋檐下交织上演。

　　自从他的爱妻12年前在海地大地震发生时不幸死于难产之后，维克多·菲尔汀（小莱斯利·奥多姆 Leslie Odom Jr. 饰）就一个人独自抚养他们的女儿安吉拉（莉娅·朱厄特 Lidya Jewett 饰）。　　但是当安吉拉和她的好友凯瑟琳（奥利维亚·马库姆 Olivia Marcum 饰）在树林中消失不见，三天后却又突然回家，完全不记得自己发生了什么事情之后，就引发了一连串的诡异事件，迫使维克多不得不面对有邪恶力量作祟的可能性，于是他出于绝望和恐惧，就向唯一亲眼目睹这种事却仍然活着的人求助：克莉丝·麦尼尔（艾伦·伯斯汀 Ellen Burstyn 饰）。

　　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.