極限課程 2

校園鬼

　　1）因和同學打賭賭輸，樸貞元、云貞等三個女孩被迫潛入傳說中鬧鬼的廢棄校舍內探險。她們戰戰兢兢、心慌意亂，鬧出不少自己嚇自己的笑話。然而，女孩們的吵鬧驚動了此前曾死在這里的一個女孩的怨靈，她似乎有意將這三個冒失的闖入者留在這里。　　2）圓圓和齊齊是一對情同姐妹的好朋友，但是她們的友情正受到嚴峻的考驗。她們同時喜歡上帥氣的學生會主席，也因成績優秀將共同角逐校長的推薦升學資格。一切朝著不可預測的方向發展。　　3）高中男孩具有敏感體質，他能看到周圍的鬼魂。他在教室中被一個少女的鬼魂纏上，女孩死于非命，而殺害她的兇手的鬼魂不久也尾隨前來……

害蟲

　　少女幸子（宮崎葵飾）和老師的師生戀緋聞被傳得風風雨雨，相依為命的母親稔子（Ryo飾）則自殺未遂。打擊不斷的生活令幸子無法承受，升入中學后，她不去上學，每天閑逛打發時間。她和依靠小偷小摸賺錢的少年隆夫、精神脆弱的中年人久蔵成為了朋友。隆夫離開后，幸子和好友夏子（蒼井優飾）返回了學校。　　不久后，她又差點被母親的新歡德川強暴。謠言又起，幸子失望地離開學校。昔日的老師戀人現在發電所工作，幸子準備去他那里。然而在約定的小茶店里等了很久，他還是沒有出現。灰心的幸子跟一個前來搭訕的男子離開茶店……

肖菲勒

后座

　　弱不禁風的男子Colin（哈利·米爾林 Harry Melling 飾）遇上英俊無比的摩托車俱樂部首領Ray（亞歷山大·斯卡斯加德 Alexander Skarsg?rd 飾），Ray將Colin收為他的submissive，并帶他走近一群古怪的酷兒摩托車手，過程中各種收割童貞。但隨著Colin深入Ray的那個充滿規則和神秘的世界，他開始質疑自己是否真正適合這種當全天候submissive的生活。他是真的找到了自己的使命，還是僅僅用一種“窒息”的人生換了另一種？

年度最佳新娘

組建家庭的夢想破滅后，林基想出了一個狡猾的計劃，誓要拿下“年度新娘”的稱號，以此報復前任

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.