我女儿的闺蜜

 罗生门，日本京都的正南门。云游和尚、砍柴人和乞丐在城门底下避雨，三人闲聊，话题开始，故事的序幕拉开：一个武士和他妻子路过荒山，遭遇了不测。妻子被侮辱，而武士惨遭杀害。惨案如何酿成？凶手、妻子、借武士亡魂来做证的女巫，都各有说法。真相只得一个，但是各人提供证词的目的却各有不同。为了美化自己的道德，减轻自己的罪恶，掩饰自己的过失，人人都开始叙述一个美化自己的故事版本。荒山上的惨案，成了一团拨不开看不清的迷雾。谈论完毕，雨过天晴。砍柴人在罗生门旁发现一个哭泣的弃婴。他决定收养下来，抱着婴孩往夕阳深处走去。

　　野出租司机雷小军结识校花后的离奇经历。一个野出租屌丝男，意外地得到了校花的青睐，正当两人更近一步时，校花却离奇失踪了……

　　八个感化院的青年在两名警官的监督下，前往乡间一所破败的客栈中接受社区服务，但是他们的到来却无意中惊醒一个沉寂已久的恶魔。雅克布•古德奈特 饰（Glen Jacobs 格兰“凯恩”雅克布 饰），身高七英尺，体重四百磅，头骨里嵌着一个生锈的铁盘，锋利的指甲足够戳穿对手眼睛的精神病患者。　　雅克布四年前曾被警官弗兰克•威廉姆斯（Steven Vidler 饰）枪击头部，却侥幸逃生。如今弗兰克正是这群青年的督导员。弗兰克和孩子们的出现激起了雅克布屠杀的欲望，他举起巨斧，将客栈变作血腥的屠宰场……

　　在金融中心如矣岛从事股票基金工作的黄宇真外表光鲜，但生活究竟怎样苦乐自知。从小独自抚养他长大的父亲病重在床，巨大的生活压力令他不得不向高利贷借款，却又似乎背上更为沉重的包袱。在此期间，他和妻子的关系逐渐冷淡，并出现裂痕；而老实木讷的他在公司又受到部长和后辈排挤，面临被裁员的命运，　　在某个沮丧的夜晚，醉酒而归的黄宇真重逢儿时的玩伴正勋。正勋从小自称正义的化身，他多次帮助宇真排忧解难。当晚，宇真一句无心之言，次日后辈竟被人杀害，而他的事业似乎也出现了转机。在此之后，接连有令宇真厌烦的人离奇死亡，似乎那个正义的朋友暗中出手帮助了他……

　　经历了最可怕的一段过去，可奈（大岛优子 饰）已经精神接近崩溃，残酷命运的安排，让她最终也无法逃脱半身死灵“嗒卡嗒卡”的猎杀。路过事故现场的水谷菜月和中岛玲子是就读同一所高中同一班级的好友，她们的学校即将举行文化祭。担任文化祭委员的玲子无意中触怒了班内小集团的头头刀根绘梨香，由此遭受了无休无止的孤立和欺凌。菜月看在眼里，却不敢组织，只能随波逐流。终于有一天，再也无法忍受的玲子将希望寄托在半身死灵身上，她将与绘梨香亲近的同学相继骗到人行天桥，目睹她们被猎杀的残忍一幕。　　菜月终于发现了好友的秘密，她尝试阻止，并且了解到半身死灵的背景和不为人知的过去，可是为时已晚……

　　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.