惩罚1973

　　故事设定在“猿流感”病毒蔓延全球的背景下，人类几近毁灭，而进化为高级智慧生物的猿类一跃成为食物链顶端的王者。时移世异，暴虐的猿类首领赛撒（凯文·杜兰 Kevin Durand 饰）在一片废墟中建立起猿族历史上的第一个帝国——“猩球”崛起，这是世界新秩序诞生的黎明时分。神秘的人类女孩诺娃（弗蕾娅·艾伦 Freya Allan 饰）的出现，引起了赛撒的警觉。她似乎掌握着一个巨大的秘密，不仅关乎人类的存亡，甚至可能再度颠覆整个“猩球”。被迫逃亡的诺娃在躲避赛撒军队的过程中，与青年猿类诺亚（欧文·泰格 Owen Teague 饰）的命运交汇，揭开了一段冒险的旅程。

　　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.

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 15岁的以色列小男孩莫塞斯（Pierre Boulanger 饰）和父亲（Pierre Boulanger 饰）住在巴黎蓝色大道一幢贫穷脏乱的公寓中。母亲（Isabelle Renauld 饰）离家出走，父亲整天沉迷于书本，还编造出一个并不存在的优秀的哥哥打击莫塞斯。本该享受童年快乐的小男孩压抑阴郁，在附近的流莺献出了自己的第一次。莫塞斯去附近的土耳其穆斯林亚伯拉罕先生（Omar Shariff 饰）的杂货店里偷盗，被亚伯拉罕发现。和蔼的老人原谅了眼前这个小男孩，并亲切地向他传授知识，一老一少从此展开一段弥足珍贵的忘年交……