[秘]极乐红粉天

　　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）。

　　阿克曼博士是当地一所大学的生物老师，他在被不明飞行物追赶时遇到了意外的死亡。韦斯利，他的一个学生，在吸引女性方面有困难。这一切都发生了变化，当Xenobia女士接管了阿克曼的课程，并说服卫斯理参加一些维生素研究，她和她的助理Drax正在进行。突然，韦斯利变得很有魅力，尽管在兴奋的时候，他的脑袋里长出了肉质的天线。他新发现的成功可能会疏远他真正关心的那个女孩(Leeanne)，而Xenobia的动机可能与她不是这个地球的事实有关。

　　19岁商务专业大学生Trina目睹了自己辅导过的女生Jade在车库被撞死，但警方认为是一起意外事件。为了支付大学费用，Trina开发了一个独特的约会APP软件UPFRONT。在UPFRONT取得了巨大的成功之后，Trina无意中得知自己的APP被一些女生滥用为卖淫中心。正在Trina与朋友、导师商量是否需要关闭网站或者报警时，发现其中一个做应召的女生在宿舍自杀。Trina在追查两个女生的死因的过程中，发现导师的老公竟然是Jade的常客。在准备和导师见面的过程中，发现导师被刺，最后的凶手竟然是疯狂爱上Jade的院长。最后在合作朋友的帮助下，将院长绳之以法。

　　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.