光影之战

　　《新·奥特曼》是圆谷株式会社、东宝株式会社、Khara联合制作，东宝株式会社发行的电影。该片由庵野秀明制片、编剧，樋口真嗣担任总导演和特技导演，斋藤工、长泽雅美、西岛秀俊主演，于2022年5月13日在日本上映。该片以现代社会为舞台，以能够体验存在“至今为止谁也没有见过的奥特曼”的世界为目标。

　　After waking up in the middle of a forest with no memories, a young woman is targeted by mysterious strangers with a motive as unclear as her way back home.

　　未来世界，地球因环境污染而千疮百孔，人类家园破败萧条。一颗陨石突然撞击地球，并带来杀伤力极强的外星生物，560万人将因此失去生命。人类命运岌岌可危，总指挥李升（张家辉 饰）派出以军人泰来（古天乐 饰）为首的精英部队前往执行改造计划，部队却突遭暴力攻击，只有泰来和通讯兵光仔（万国鹏 饰）幸存。军官谭冰（刘嘉玲 饰）坚持执行PlanB，指挥官郑重生（刘青云 饰）反对并找来旧友臭鼬（姜皓文 饰）前往支援。拯救家园刻不容缓，但在通讯员小绿（吴倩 饰）悄悄提醒下，泰来发现了一个足以毁天灭地的邪恶阴谋……

　　杜燕在车祸中失去了年幼的儿子，万念俱灰的她住在自家经济不景气的森林会所，失去了生活的动力。丈夫白岭的贴心关怀，反倒平添她的伤感。一个清晨，巡视森林的她遇到了另一个“自己”，跟随着那个人，她来到了一个平行世界的进出口并踏过了那扇门，而这也是一场噩梦的开始。在不同的空间里，她遇到了性格完全不同的丈夫、哥哥，而且每个空间的现实都不尽相同，同时，她也遭遇到了各种危险，并差点丧命。最终她得出结论，要杀掉某个空间的自己取而代之，才可以平息这一切。可善良的她终究难以下手，渐渐的，她成了游荡在平行空间中的鬼魂一样的存在，直到不经意间，她回到了看似自己原来空间的地方，而这一场梦境，似乎还未结束。

　　迈可透过一张光碟，参加了一场刺激的游戏，在月黑风高的晚上他发现自已稍稍走进一间屋子并从厨房拿刀子杀死一个沈睡著的男人当迈可醒来时他兴奋极了，这一生他从没有这么刺激和开心过，第二天当他看到新闻。天啊！那件谋杀案真的发生了吗？后来第二张CD又寄来了，他决定结束这场荒谬的游戏，但主谋者从迈可的电脑中走出来，他竟是一具有形象的＂人＂，并且一再要胁迈可再玩下去，也挑唆他面对恐惧和幻象，迈可就像受催眠一般他无处可逃，主谋者已经完全控制了他使他分不清什么是真什么是假……

　　西暦1988年。人類は謎のUFO群の襲来により危機に瀕していた。人類の存亡をかけ、南海の秘密基地で建造されていた国連宇宙防衛艦・轟天は発進する。侵略者の正体は、太陽系から2万2千光年離れたメシエ13と呼ばれる球状星団・恒星ヨミの第三惑星人だった。彼らは年老いた母星そっくりの地球を征服すべく、指揮官ヘルのもとに金星に侵略の前線基地を築いていた。敵ヘルファイターとの激しい戦闘をくり返し、金星に向かう轟天。しかし、その前に敵の超努級戦艦・大魔艦が立ちふさがる……。

　　一个故障百出的 AI 机械人正面临被淘汰的命运，却因爱上一个女人而躲进一个男人的血肉之躯，用尽千方百计夺取芳心。

　　最近，在曼哈顿发生了一连串的离奇死亡事件，而这些事件的主要责任竟要归结到一对对此毫不知情的昆虫学家夫妇苏珊（米拉·索维诺 Mira Sorvino 饰）和皮特（杰瑞米·诺森 Jeremy Northam 饰）的身上。
　　原来，为了抵抗曾经在曼哈顿肆虐的疫情，苏珊和皮特创造出了一种名为“犹大”的昆虫，这种人造昆虫没有繁殖的能力，却能够消灭病毒的携带体蟑螂。令两夫妇没有想到的是，在犹大的体内发生了未知的变异，使得它不仅拥有了繁殖后代的能力，甚至可以化身成人类的模样进行狩猎，而它们的猎物不是别人，正是人类本身。作为犹大的“父母”，苏珊和皮特义不容辞的担负起了消灭它们的责任，在地铁系统专家雷纳德（查尔斯·达顿 Charles S. Dutton 饰）的帮助下，一行人向着犹大在地下的老巢进发了。

　　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.