妈妈的诱惑 2

　　15岁的艾利克斯来自一个天主教家庭，他希望自己将来能成为一个牧师。当他无意中发现并打开了一个神秘的盒子之后，放出了一个一心要占据他身体的恶魔。艾利克斯必须找到办法打败这个一直在折磨儿童的古老的恶魔，否则将会毁掉他和所有他爱的人。

　　所有人都以为，艾米（米拉·库妮丝 Mila Kunis 饰）拥有着幸福美满的婚姻生活——恩爱的丈夫，乖巧的孩子，优渥的生活条件，但只有艾米自己知道，为了维系这看似光鲜的表象，她的内心早已经精疲力尽。丈夫把所有的家务事都一股脑的甩在她的头上，在处理这些琐事的同时，艾米还必须兼顾着去讨好她周围其他的妈妈们。　　终于有一天，艾米再也受不了她的生活了，她离开了家庭，抛弃了丈夫和孩子，带着闺蜜琪琪（克里斯汀·贝尔 Kristen Bell 饰）和卡拉（凯瑟琳·哈恩 Kathryn Hahn 饰），两名同样受到生活疯狂压榨的家庭主妇，三人踏上了一条疯狂的狂欢之路。

　　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.

 1951年，英国乡村边缘，德卢斯家族的庄园已在岁月中斑驳颓败。11岁的弗拉维亚·德卢斯，是家族里最离经叛道的孩子——她痴迷化学，尤其精通毒药，更有着超越年龄的侦探天赋。当一具陌生尸体出现在庄园的庭院中，她的父亲哈维兰上校成了警方的头号嫌疑人。为了洗刷父亲的冤屈，弗拉维亚拿起放大镜与化学试剂，在老宅的藏书室、实验室与庄园的隐秘角落中展开调查。她周旋于警探、古怪的家族成员与小镇居民之间，在层层迷雾中探寻真相，而随着调查深入，她也逐渐揭开了家族隐藏多年的秘密。