两个遥远的陌生人

　　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.

　　第二次世界大战过后已经16年了，但是各个大国之间的关系的政治纠纷没有结束，逐渐分成联邦营（资本主义）和同盟营（共产主义）两大派别，韩战结束后南北朝鲜协定北纬38度线为界，虽是这样，苏联对美国的核子战争将会一触即发，使得世界上所有人民都人心恍恍。
　　同盟营的舰队在北太平洋进行演习，这时联邦营的导弹潜水艇突然进入同盟国的演习地区，和同盟军潜艇产生冲突事件。两方的导弹基地也相继引发误射导弹发射命令和核爆事件，所幸最后无任何危机产生。
　　然而两大阵营的紧张的气氛终于爆发，两方空军于北极白令海上空开打，两方也都让各基地的导弹发射，展开了全面核战争，最后日本东京以及各国城市被轰炸成一片焦土和死寂

　　幻想与现实界限模糊的未来世界，科技已经发展到远远超越时代的地步。电玩界女王爱丽拉·盖勒（詹妮弗·杰森·李 Jennifer Jason Leigh饰）不仅美丽性感，更是一位设计尖端游戏的设计师。她所设计的虚拟实境系统“X接触”可以直接干扰玩家的神经系统。在试玩大会上，各方玩家齐聚一堂，体验爱丽拉的最新杰作。然而一群狂热者企图刺杀爱丽拉，危急时刻，爱丽拉被守卫泰德·皮库（裘德·洛 Jude Law饰）救走。为了躲避追杀，两人双双进入“X接触”的异次元世界，然而一切正在变得越来越虚幻。
　　这部隐含大量社会议题的科幻惊悚影片《感官游戏》，由国际影坛最富争议性、最成功的导演之一大卫·柯南伯格执导。本片入围1999年第49届柏林国际电影节金熊奖，导演大卫·柯南伯格荣获该年度柏林国际电影节银熊奖-杰出艺术成就，并荣获2000年第26届美国电影电视土星奖-最佳科幻电影提名等多项大奖。

　　Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. 15 special effects experts and 9 cameramen were involved in the production of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational impact. It its beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborated way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a space shuttle visiting different planets in the universe seem to have to be the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
　　In the context of Germany's Kulturfilm phenomenon, Wunder der Schöpfung was among the greatest achievements of the 1920s. The production was constructed, rehearsed, and shot over a period of two and a half years, under the supervision of Hanns Walter Kornblum. The idea to describe the universe and man's place in it well suited UFA's Grossfilm mentality, one year before the Metropolis catastrophe. Hundreds of skilled craftsmen participated in the project, building props and constructing scale models drawn by 15 special effects draughtsmen, while 9 cameramen in separate units worked on the historical, documentary, fiction, animation, and science-fiction sequences. Without star roles or even protagonists, the film's plot is crowded with meticulously structured and skillfully acted single scenes an artful mosaic of small vignettes. No less than four credited university professors ensured the factual background behind the scientific and historical events portrayed.
　　The film's symbol of progress and the new scientific era is a spacecraft, travelling through the Milky Way, making all the planets and their inspiring worlds familiar to us, with the extravaganza of their distinctive features. The film's educational intentions, however, become steadily more obscure, humorous, or even campy as this popularization project proceeds. With the excuse of presenting the end of the world a not-so-new concept as a new, undeniably scientific truth, the film veers happily along a new path, displaying detailed apocalyptic scenes of the end of mankind. For today's audiences, this amazing film demonstrates how the universe was comprehended in the 1920s, and how that view was sold to contemporary audiences.

　　故事背景设在未来，威利斯经营的娱乐场所幻世，拥有一批机器人，当作人类发泄情绪，实施现实生活中无法实施的各种残忍犯罪的受害人。机器人每晚进行重启，消除前24小时的记忆，但重启过程对一个机器人（安拜·柴尔德斯饰）没有奏效，它有了记忆和自我意识，逃出了对它而言宛如地狱的幻世。它与托马斯·简饰演的，一心想扳倒幻世的警察，以及乔纳森·斯卡奇饰演的机器人设计师一起，向威利斯发起冲击。

　　Eric Braeden stars as Dr. Charles Forbin, who has created a supercomputer named Colossus, built solely for the purpose of controlling the nuclear defenses of the Western alliance. It isn't too long after, however, that the Russians announce that they too have built a similar computer for those same purposes on their side--Guardian. And when the two machines begin sharing information at a speed nobody can believe, an attempt is made to disable them.
　　This unfortunately just raises the machines' ire; and in retaliation, they launch their weapons at each other's home nations. The result is a chilling scenario that is potentially becoming all too real these days.
　　COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT was not a big hit at the box office for various reasons. One is that its cast wasn't exactly well known. Another reason is that its ending isn't exactly a happy one. Still a third reason is that Universal had trouble trying to promote it in the wake of the huge success of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. The latter reason is obvious: Colossus and Guardian, like HAL in the Kubrick movie, become central characters here. The difference here is that while HAL malfunctions due to a programming conflict, Colossus and Guardian remain all too stable, convinced beyond a doubt that they know how to protect Mankind better than Man himself. As the computers point out: "One inevitable rule is that Mankind is his own worst enemy."
　　Joseph Sargent's direction is efficient, and the special effects work of Albert Whitlock still manages to work despite its obvious age. An overlooked gem in the sci-fi genre, this should be given a revival.

　　2012年的一天，位于格陵兰附近的海克拉火山爆发，这次毁灭性的喷发炸断了冰川架，一块庞大的冰川借着惯性以极快的速度向美国袭来。居住在美国缅因州的气象学家比尔·哈特（Patrick Labyorteaux 饰）正载着儿子内尔森（Nick Afanasiev 饰）一起送女儿朱莉娅（Katie Wilson 饰）乘飞机前往纽约。在路上他从格陵兰科考队的朋友那里得知冰川炸裂的消息，于是试图带着儿子和妻子特丽（Julie McCullough 饰）离开冰川必然路过的缅因。
　　冰川行进的速度似乎远远超乎人们的想象，比尔必须尽快奔往纽约，与女儿朱莉娅汇合。在此期间，冰川登陆美国，气候突变，灾难频发，整个世界陷入一场史无前例的危机之中，恐怖的冰河时代再次降临……

 两个值守夜班的“倒霉蛋”甜点心（乔·基瑞 饰）和内奥米（乔治娜·坎贝尔 饰），意外发现了疯狂繁殖的外星寄生真菌，无福消受这顿重口加班餐的二人发出求救信号。“淡淡死感”的退休特工罗伯特（连姆·尼森 饰）被迫再就业，重新上岗拯救即将被真菌腐蚀的世界。他们一边躲避着因寄生而绿液四溅的宿主们，一边和翻涌的肠胃做斗争，在一阵阵爆浆声中大开“惊喜盲盒”。这组画风迥异的“临时战友”能否阻挡这场末日浩劫？谁又能活着走出这个惊魂之夜……

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