半兽人

 为纪念逝世的奶奶，许久未见的堂兄弟大卫与班吉相约前往波兰参加导览团，也顺道探访奶奶的老家。一路上，班吉有话直说、率性风趣的性格迅速与同团人士拉近距离，令木讷拘谨的大卫既焦虑又羡慕，压抑已久的情绪日益沸腾。然而，随着旅途种种安排不断挑动班吉的敏感神经，他的狂放不羁似乎逐渐走向失序，大卫试图息事宁人，但内心的不安却席卷而来。这趟寻根之旅，能否解决彼此心底难以言说的痛楚？

　　影片讲述了一个从小被抛弃于森林，依照动物生存模式存活下来的女人。被一个男人掳掠回家并且受尽欺凌。这家人中，男主人极度大男子主义，仇视女人。小儿子因为受父亲教导也对女人极不尊敬。懦弱并逆来顺受的母亲，被父亲侮辱而怀孕的大女儿，以及不谙世事的小女儿。故事的最后，大女儿在极度绝望和恐惧的支配下放了野女人，野女人杀了她的父母和弟弟，带走了她的妹妹。 　　本片以不太恐怖的氛围，却深刻的暗喻了一个至今仍然存在的严重的社会现象，男人应该如何看待女人，女人应该如何正确扮演家庭中的角色。

　　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.

　　1997年，亚洲金融危机如同暴风雨一般席卷各国，公司倒闭已成寻常，老板富贾逃亡自杀，普通民众的生活愈加困苦。富家女孩布姆（Thunyaphat Pattarateerachaicharoen 饰）父亲所盖的大楼最终烂尾，遭到父亲家暴后，万念俱灰的布姆和伊布（Panisara Rikulsurakan 饰）相约自杀。阴差阳错，贝尔去往另一个世界，布姆则苟活人间。　　时光流转，20年后的布姆（楠迪·宗拉维蒙 Namthip Jongrachatawiboon 饰）已成为小有名气的房地产企业家。某天，她带着女儿贝尔（安比查雅•松可寒 Apichaya Thongkham 饰）再次来到当年和朋友自杀的烂尾楼。顽皮的贝尔四处游荡，捡到了母亲当初和伊布沟通的BP机。殊不知，一个孤独的灵魂已在此等候多年，只为了践行未完的承诺……