普罗米修斯

　　'In Vitro' is an otherworldly rumination on memory, history, place and identity. Set in Bethlehem decades after an ecological-disaster, the dying founder of a subterranean orchard is engaged in a dialogue with her young successor, who was born underground and has never seen the town she's destined to replant and repopulate. Inherited trauma, exile and collective memory are central themes.

　　本片改编自“ 阿道司·赫胥黎 ”同名小说。一个在原始社会长大，通过阅读莎士比亚自学的野蛮人，突然有一天加入了他父母所在的未来社会。然而，他不能适应他们的生活方式……

　　一名墨西哥少年发现了一只外星甲虫，这只甲虫给了他超能力的盔甲。

　　研究者对同年龄组的两个家庭做了跟踪调查：一对是IQ为130的天才组合，夫妻和睦，但是无嗣，正当两人准备作试管婴儿之时，男主人却在自慰中意外死亡；另一个家庭，都是IQ 80的低能夫妻，天天吵架，不过却人丁兴旺，不仅三代同堂，而且家族甚大。根据这个调查，研究者选择了一个自愿 者鲍尔斯（卢克•威尔逊 Luke Wilson 饰）做冷冻实验，不想实验出了差错，500年后他醒来后，却成为地球上最聪明的人。他被盲打误撞地选做了总统的候选人，支持他的甚至还有5届自由搏击冠军。在盛大的竞选现场，他只能硬着头皮面对选民演说，对于目前的种植、沙尘暴等问题，他提出的是灌溉这一看似离谱的解决办法。而且，还得到了选民的拥护，然而这个美梦迅速破灭了，他开始遭到谩骂、攻击，甚至是性命堪忧……

　　2045年，两极冰川融化，地球上仅存的石油和天然气在加拿大北部被人们发现了。剧中的Borealis镇是一个靠近北极的小镇，许多渴望占有这些宝贵资源的人云集于此，企业家、旅店业大亨Vic Carboneau也是其中之一。Vic声称自己最先发现这些东西，应该享有所有权，可各方势力都想要分一杯羹，一场多方战争一触即发（Vic友人之死成了导火索）。

　　2010年秋，世卫组织官员小林荣子（檀丽 Rei Dan 饰）随队前往菲律宾扑灭禽流感，疫情很快得以控制，但仍有感染者私自离开疫区……次年，东京都的某家市立医院，医生松冈刚（妻夫木聪 Satoshi Tsumabuki 饰）收治的一名高烧病人入院后情况急转直下，咳血而死，病人家属与部分医生亦因感染而病倒。同时，近郊一家养 鸡场内检测出禽流感病毒，场主神苍及女儿（池肋千鹤 Chizuru Ikewaki 饰）的平静生活被打破。
　　小林荣子受命至此指导防疫，旧相识松冈担任其助手。疫情迅速扩散，一月之内病亡人数达到两千，各地出现恐慌，引发国际关注，政府迅速将疫区封锁。松冈偶然之下得知病毒源头可能另有所在，国外传回的检测结果支持了他的判断，松冈决定远赴国外查找病源。在空前的疫情中，松冈、小林以及神苍每个人都将面临自己选择的考验。

　　哈利（丹尼尔·雷德克里夫）即将在霍格沃兹渡过第三个年头，此时在阿兹塔班却传出恶棍小天狼星（加里·奥德曼）越狱的消息。据说小天狼星正是背叛哈利父母的好友，他的教父，而这次小天狼星越狱似乎正是为了找他。哈利的心里悄悄的滋生了为父母报仇的想法，期待着小天狼星的出现。
　　新来的魔法老师卢平（大卫·休里斯）有着桀骜不驯的个性，与哈利关系很好，教了哈利许多实用的黑魔法防御知识。而此时在他的魔法地图上却出现了一个神秘人物，虫尾巴。偶然的机会下，在尖叫棚屋里集齐了哈利父亲当年的所有好友，卢平、虫尾巴、小天狼星，哈利的魔杖直指向小天狼星，但他发现那罪犯看他的眼神里充满了疼爱……

　　某个平凡的傍晚，大学生玄野计（二宫和也 饰）在电车站重逢初中时代的好友加藤胜（松山健一 饰）。为了救助一个跌落铁轨的男子，他们二人遭到电车的强烈撞击。然而转眼之间，他们便毫发无损地来到一间密闭的屋子内。这里还有另外七个男人以及一个巨大的黑色球体。根据黑球的指示，这群人需要穿上战服拿起武器去刺杀葱星人。有的人为了奖金投入了杀戮游戏，有的人为了生存而冷酷无情。生死关头，懦弱的阿计和善良的阿胜也不得不投入其中，而前方还有更多的考验等待着他们。此外，名为GANTZ的系统又隐藏着怎样的秘密？
　　本片分前后篇两部，根据漫画家奥浩哉的同名原著改编。

　　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.