小早川怜子 – Reiko 旅情～nostalgia～

殡葬民俗与悬疑探案交织，借一座老宅、一口古井，揭开三代人缠绕的执念与秘密。影片以阿尔茨海默病家庭为切口，用科学精神破除迷信迷障，在悬疑与反转中传递“生命落幕，爱意不散”的温暖主题。

　　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.

故事设定在20世纪90年代末的越南西南部乡村，讲述了年轻女子Lan（Phương Thanh饰）在父亲去世后，前往一位名叫Danh（Mạc Văn Khoa饰）的鳏夫家中担任女佣。她很快发现这座房子隐藏着可怕的秘密：神秘的死亡事件接连发生，村庄中流传着关于“守财灵”的传说——一种通过黑暗仪式召唤的灵体，用于守护财产，但会对陌生人造成致命威胁。Lan与一位名叫Sơn（Quốc Trường饰）的恐怖小说作家联手，试图揭开这些离奇事件背后的真相。

 少女梅宝（佩珀·柯达 Piper Curda 配音）偶然借助突破性技术，让自身意识“跳脱”身体，进入机械动物体内，“变身”为一只活泼灵动的河狸，从而得以潜入动物社群内部，更以“人类思维闯入动物本能”的独特视角，揭开一场充满意外与温情的野外探险。