醫院換換愛

畫中仙

　　拾兒（元彪 飾）是老道士（午馬 飾）在河邊一個木盆里發現的孤兒，起名拾兒將其撫養成人。拾兒自小跟著老道士捉鬼降妖，與俗世沾染不多，只得崔書生（吳啟華 飾）這一個朋友。鬼王（李美鳳 飾）向來作惡多端，常將無辜少女劫走，帶入陰間。莫愁就是鬼王帶走的一個年輕女孩，在出嫁路上被劫走，做了孤魂野鬼，受制于鬼王。崔書生偶遇可附于畫中的莫愁，對其曼妙可愛的身姿戀戀不忘，鬼王卻始終不肯放過莫愁。　　崔書生決心解救莫愁，反被鬼王所抓，拾兒一心想救出朋友，老道士卻不通人情不愿幫忙。拾兒是否能夠救出崔書生？好心收養孤兒的道士真是如此絕情？

爆炸新聞2021

彼得·潘與溫蒂

　　講述一個關于小飛俠彼得·潘（亞歷山大·莫洛尼 Alexander Molony 飾）同溫蒂（艾爾·安德森 Ever Anderson 飾）友情故事，揭開胡克船長（裘德·洛 Jude Law 飾）鮮為人知的往事。

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　　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.