沮丧的妻子

　　1999年釜山的一个小村庄里，女学生恩智（刘慧英饰）被害身亡，她的哥哥张宇（周元饰）也失去了唯一的亲人，他决心一定要查出杀害妹妹的凶手。由于一点线索都没有，张宇不得不借助能预知死亡的少女（李柔英饰）的力量来追查真凶，并在追查的过程中，盯上了小区内平常人缘和口碑都不错的药店药师闵药局（刘海镇饰），虽然没有证据，但是张宇却认定他就是“那个家伙”，于是开始24小时紧盯着闵药局  。

 一个摇滚乐队的鼓手（里兹·阿迈德）突然发现自己失聪，他的乐队搭档露（奥利维亚·库克）和他都很懊恼，但又不得不面对这残酷的现实。影片去年在多伦多电影节首映，作为导演处女作获得媒体好评。

　　本片改编自ＨＢＯ１９８８年起播映的影集，播出后广受另类影迷的欢迎。依循该影集的特色，我们看到三层投射在电影银幕的剪影，影片中的人正在观赏一堆低俗可笑的Ｂ级影片。剧情安排一位邪恶的科学佛利特，他意图以最低俗的Ｂ级影片来对人类洗脑，并进而控制人类的意志。片中被试验的对象麦克是个平凡人物，但是他非但未被低级影片所害，反倒颇能乐在其中，并与银幕上的主角产生颇具“笑”果的对话。本片以独特的观点来处理，对于新新人类，是另类电影风的最佳代表与选择。　　快戴上你的太空安全帽，一场疯狂滑稽的旅程就要展开！一位邪恶的科学家，意图以最低俗的B级影片来对人类洗脑，并进而控制人类的意志，最后占领地球。因此一个倒楣的平凡人麦可纳尔逊被当成实验对象，与两个滑稽的机器人一同登上一艘宇宙飞船，被迫观看1955年的一部烂科幻片。但是没想到，麦可非但未被低级影片所害，反倒能乐在其中，并与银幕上的主角产生颇具「笑」果的对话！此片是根据一个同名电视秀所改编而成，该电视秀从80年代晚期延续到90年代中期，它所造成的轰动盛况，不但有六万名以上的疯狂影迷，甚至还出了一本书，并拍了这部电影。

　　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.