怨妇

 砵仔糕（周润发 饰）、阿占（张国荣 饰）和红豆（钟楚红 饰）均是孤儿，在养父（曾江 饰）栽培下成为国际大盗。长大后成了帮他赚钱的艺术品大盗，而三人同时又认了警察（朱江 饰）为干爹。法国巴黎博物馆内，名画《赫林之女仆》被人盗走。与此同时，阿海、阿占和红豆三人以敏捷身手盗得另一幅名画，在与法国大哥交易时得知名画《赫林之女仆》在妖气重重的古堡内，他们在曾江安排下成功地盗取此画之后，反被集团原凶曾江与法国大哥合谋设下陷阱，派人追杀灭口。阿海驾车与杀手快艇相撞……三人失散，数年后，他们在香港重聚，阿海“瘫痪”住在朱江家里，阿占和红豆已经结婚了。曾江又逼他们去偷画……

　　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.

　　乾隆年间国泰民安，百姓安居乐业欣欣向荣过的是好不快活。　　皇上在御前侍卫高迪的陪同下前往江南体恤民情。在皇上出宫后一长阴谋正在展开，一位野心勃勃的王爷竟然暗地与当地黑帮勾结一路追杀皇帝。　　在前往惠州城的路上遇上了从京城逃婚离家的野蛮格格贾仁。经过一场“恶斗”后三人决定一同上路，在惠州城的集市遇到了在集市中摆擂台的“洋鬼子”元宵。元宵在比试中输给了贾仁格格执意要让贾仁格格收他为徒。三人想尽办法却无法摆脱元宵，无奈只能收下元宵为徒。半夜在惠州城的某客栈，突然出现蒙面黑衣人刺杀皇帝，还好刺客技艺不精，皇帝没有受到半点伤害。高迪决定四人连夜赶往他的老家避难。　　在高迪家中，皇上遇到高迪的表妹惠乔，皇上对惠乔一见倾心，贾仁格格也慢慢的爱上了那个英俊风流的侍卫高迪。贾仁格格与元宵在回家的路上遇到一对奇丑无比的恋人。两人因为相貌丑陋所以年过四十还没成家。善良的贾仁格格便与众人一起帮助这对苦命鸳鸯筹办婚礼，终于让这对苦命恋人有情人终成眷属。皇上与惠乔，高迪与贾仁在这段日子感情也逐渐升温。岂料此时皇上与惠乔被蜻蜓帮绑架，高迪与贾仁心急如焚，托朋友四处打听皇上与惠乔的下落。　　绑架皇上的正是蜻蜓帮的帮主夫人瑶，此女人也曾经是皇上的爱人，当年为了皇帝背叛帮会。由爱生恨，此女对皇上当年弃之不顾的事耿耿与怀。但是在与皇帝相处的这段日子里旧情复燃并偷偷的通知高迪皇帝被囚禁之处。　　在与众人的帮助下高迪终于找到了皇帝的所在，但在这个时候元宵露出了狐狸尾巴，众人没有想到元宵竟然是蜻蜓帮的人，在这个关键时候元宵倒戈相向。所幸的是元宵的背叛并没有个给大家带来什么麻烦，最后还是将皇帝从蜻蜓帮的魔爪之中救出。通过这次危难四人的感情更是牢固，最后成就了这一段错体姻缘。