女演员文青被困在一艘狭小的太空船内,并对外实况直播,上演一出真实的生存秀。在太空、反派与观众的三重考验下,她发现破除困境最终的办法,就是抛开虚伪的伪装,坦然面对最真实的自己。
The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.
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.
工作失意,婚姻暗淡,人生正值低潮的摩根·苏利文(杰瑞米·诺森 Jeremy Northam 饰)无时无刻不在渴望一种全新、精彩的生活。偶然机会,他成为高科技数码公司Digicorp的雇员。在培训期间,他接受公司的洗脑并且有了全新的身份,从此他游走世界各地,不断窃取Digicorp的主要对手Sunways的商业机密。在某次执行任务时,他邂逅了带有神秘气质的女郎丽塔(刘裕玲 Lucy Liu 饰)。摩根从她口中得知发生在自己身上的一切,并以此为契机成为一名双料间谍,然而他的人生也开始朝着失控的方向疯狂驶去…… 本片荣获2003年布鲁塞尔奇幻电影节金鸦奖;2003年葡萄牙国际电影节最佳男主角奖(Jeremy Northam)、最佳特效奖和评审团特别奖。
Chris is a psychic who lives his life out of order - experiencing past, present and future as a jigsaw puzzle. But when he commits a murder in the future, he has to change his past and present in order to prevent it from happening.
二战期间,德国纳粹为取得战争的胜利奇招迭出,他们希望研制出刀枪不入、力大无比的超级战士。但随着战争的结束,这项研究也被掩埋在历史的尘埃之中。 20世纪70年代,船长(John Carradine 饰)及两个助手驾驶着客船,载着四名游客行驶在加勒比的海上。突然天空变成一片猩红,电台和雷达同时失灵,客船遭遇海难。船长带领游客乘救生船逃生,来到一座小岛。当他们尚未从惊恐中平静下来时,危机再次袭来,岛上沉睡着一群恐怖邪恶的生物,正是当年纳粹研究开发的生化战士…… 本片在佛罗里达拍摄,成本只有20万美元。