香港奇案之强奸

 沙漠里流传着一句话：天出血，人死绝。故事发生在旧时代的西北，这样一片沙漠地带，它讲述了一个爱情悲剧故事。年青的问九因乡邻间缺水争执而出逃在外，待回来时，曾与之心心相印的秀秀姑娘已被族叔迎娶，成了他的婶婶。水继续威胁着人们的生存，问九的族叔为富不仁，竟以空手能否从滚开的油锅里捞起铜钱来决定人们在绿洲的去留，他狠毒地骗问九替他捞起铜钱却又暗地加害问九。问九奋起抗争，砍死了族叔，被官府捉捕。牢狱未能囚住问九渴求自由的心。他一次次寻求机会越狱。数十年后，当问九逃出虎口，却又被沙漠里的土匪抓住逼他带路，对秀秀的爱情支撑着问九最后的生命，他再次出逃，挣扎着爬回自己的故乡。但黄沙已无情地吞噬了这里的一切，唯有刻着绿洲村的石柱还未被淹没。问九手抚石柱瞑目在这荒原上。荒原上，彩霞满天。天出血，人死绝。

　　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.

　　某座住宅区，负责公寓内各项维修事务的菲恩（Matt O'Leary 饰）和约瑟（George Finn 饰）是一对穷的叮当响的好基友。某天菲恩的女友凯莉（Danielle Panabaker 饰）来到他们的住处，当得知住在隔壁的贝先生已经很长时间没走出房门时，凯莉自告奋勇上门查看，结果却一脸错愕地回到二人面前。原来贝先生早已不见踪影，房间内一面墙贴满了以三个人为对象的拍立得照片，窗口则有一台奇怪的机器正对着菲恩和约瑟的房间。不久后他们发现，那台机器竟是可以拍摄到未来情景的照相机。他们发现了贝先生的尸体，然而因为照相机的原因秘藏了此事。　　无意间拥有了窥视未来的手段，年轻人们的心不知不觉躁动起来……

　　故事发生在一个电脑科技极为发达的年代，一名科学家发明了一个杀人程序协助警方办案，其中集结了数百名连环杀手的资料和他们的作案手法。这个程序是如此的邪恶，最后不仅生成了个人意志，更拥有了人类的外表和可以随时修复任意损伤的特殊能力，它从禁锢中逃脱了出来，在世间作恶。　　为了捕捉这位邪恶的“凶手”，警方设计了一个追踪仪器，罪犯帕克（丹泽尔·华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰）被选中成为了仪器的试验品。帕克曾经亦是一名警察，却因为动用私刑杀死了让他家破人亡的杀手而被免除了职务打入大牢。而让帕克感到在意的是，在杀人程序中，亦有当年杀害他家人的那名杀手的存在。