香港奇案之烹夫

1956年匈牙利革命后，一个男孩从小被母亲灌输了关于已故父亲的理想化故事，却突然遇到一个粗野的男人，对方声称自己是他的亲生父亲。

　　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.

 伊薇（尼娜·凯莉 Nina Kiri 饰）肩负着照顾临终母亲的重任，她渴望逃离支离破碎的现实带来的孤独感。如今，她住在一间堆满感伤纪念品和回忆的房子里，理智和生活秩序都维系在她制作的超自然播客节目《底音》上。虽然她通常对搭档贾斯汀发给她的那些令人毛骨悚然的音频文件持怀疑态度，但最新收到的音频却让她感到不同寻常。一对年轻备孕夫妇的十段从未公开录音逐一揭晓，每一段都比上一段更加不祥。随着伊薇将这些录音与她目前的遭遇进行对比，隐藏的信息逐渐显现，将她推向疯狂的边缘……

　　在饱受干旱困扰的小镇中，一个拉美裔家庭给他们唯一的儿子取名为“帆船”。帆船给他的家人带来了新的爱和希望。一天下午他带回了一把小吉他。从这一刻起，帆船和他的吉他形影不离。病重的祖母希望他为她写一首歌，帆船迎难而上，创作了有史以来最伟大的歌曲。