草莓之夜2013

　　仿佛永不停歇的连绵之雨，引领着成军四年半的姬川班前往终点。在一周时间内，东京连续发生三起作案手法雷同的杀人事件，死者全部隶属最大黑帮大和会的下属组织。警方旋即成立搜查总部，组队四课坚持认定该案件因继承人之位而起，而姫川玲子（竹内结子 饰）提出质疑，导致总部分裂。随之而来的神秘电话，令玲子将目标锁定在柳井健斗（染谷将太 饰）的陌生男子身上，然而高层却下令她禁止追查柳井这条线索。绝不随便屈从强权的玲子，在菊田和男（西岛秀俊 饰）等姬川班伙伴的掩护下展开独立调查，在此过程中，柳井不堪回首的过去以及和警方错综复杂的关系逐渐明朗。而和自称房地产商人的牧田勋（大泽隆夫 饰）邂逅，使得同样背负着伤痕的玲子命运发生转变……　　本片根据誉田哲也的系列悬疑小说《草莓之夜》改编，为同名电视剧的剧场版。

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简和伴侣的森林之旅出了岔子，当一个陌生人出现并质疑他们关系的真实性时，她开始怀疑自己是否真正掌握了现实的全部真相。

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　　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.

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