三人行2023

　　許久不見的克里斯提安(43歲)與吉奧(45歲)，終於在他們父親的葬禮上重逢。個性截然不同的兄弟難得聚在一起，在守靈夜酒酣耳熱之際，臨時起意決定去實現小時候的夢想-騎著電動自行車進行一趟從黑森林到波羅的海、橫越整片德國的冒險旅程。在這段時速最高僅25公里的漫活旅程中，兩人經歷了許多意想不到的遭遇，也重新認識了彼此，甚至改變了他們往後的人生。

　　故事发生在一个虚构的城市——埃迪森市中，在那里，执政者和执法者相互勾结，黑恶势力层出不穷，金钱和权利的交易每天都在发生，这些黑暗和腐败犹如一只巨大而厚重的手掌，控制了整个城市和生活在其中的人们。波拉克（贾斯汀·丁伯莱克 Justin Timberlake 饰）是一名尚且保留了赤子之心的记者，精明的他很快就察觉到了发生在这个城市中的种种罪恶，心怀远大理想的他决定将它们一一揭发。　　波拉克的举动很快就惹恼了他正在调查的对象们，他们决定灭掉这个不知好歹的小子。在危险之中，波拉克只得求助于自己的老板艾斯佛（摩根·弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰）——一个良心尚存的老记者，在艾斯佛和其好友华勒斯检察官（凯文·史派西 Kevin Spacey 饰）的帮助下，波拉克正在一步一步的接近真相。

　　The Destroyers of Alien Invasion Attacks Survival the Tripod the Killers.

　　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.