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时光插班生

　　当一声lesson one响起，不知你的思绪是否也回到了有朗朗读书声的那间教室，回到有雷蕾、何玫玫、Jimmy、Lily、Lucy和鹦鹉Poly陪伴的青春记忆。然而，雷蕾和何玫玫最终却没有走到一起……多年后，这些同学们因鹦鹉Polly的葬礼齐聚学校操场，何玫玫带着丈夫韩刚和两个女儿到场，一个叫可可，一个叫惜惜，这对雷蕾犹如晴天霹雳！失意之极的李雷在无意中按动了装有英语听力磁带的录音机，他发现通过磁带的快进倒带键可以一次又一次的穿越。于是，他开始了一次又一次的追回何玫玫计划……

另一个人

　　外人看来，彼得（连姆·尼森 Liam Neeson 饰）无疑是一个幸福的男人，妻子丽萨（劳拉·琳妮 Laura Linney 饰）温柔漂亮，两人的婚姻稳定而美满。可近日来，彼得发现丽萨的行为举止越来越奇怪，多疑的他本能的想到，丽萨可能已经另结新欢了。面对妻子的出轨，占有欲极强的彼得感到妒火中烧，通过种种线索，一个名叫雷夫（安东尼奥·班德拉斯 Antonio Banderas 饰）的男人浮出了水面。　　追随着丽萨的脚步，彼得来到了意大利，在这里，他果然见到了雷夫。狡猾的彼得决定先隐藏身份，接近雷夫。可是，随着彼得和雷夫的关系越来越近，彼得发现自己渐渐无法控制自己的言行，他对雷夫的存在深恶痛绝，恨不得杀之而后快。

等待方舟

　　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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