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　　Alone in Space is a high concept adventurous, warm and funny genre feature film that doesn't shy away from big questions about life and death. Alone in Space takes the audience on a ride with two kids lost in space, accompanied by a friendly alien.

　　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……

　　在一个平静的夜晚，一辆飞驰而来的汽车，撞碎了音乐教授约翰（威廉·麦鲍瑟 William Mapother 饰）的幸福生活，他的妻女以及美好的人生都被尚未成年的少女罗娜（布里特·马灵 Brit Marling 饰）夺去。这起事故，也让罗娜的心灵蒙受巨大打击。罪恶感让她过着最底层的生活，却始终逃脱不掉灵魂的谴责。偶然机会，她重逢约翰，并以清洁人员的名义走进约翰潦倒无望的生活。在一段时间相处过后，他们渐渐温暖了彼此漫布创痕的心。与此同时，人类发现了一颗与地球极为相似的行星，而那里似乎也住着人类另一个自己。这是希望，还是美好的梦想？
　　本片荣获2011年圣丹斯电影节评委会特别奖。

　　60年代的日本人似乎对这个大黑猩猩情有独钟，在玩遍了各种哥斯拉的故事之后，依然将金刚的神奇遭遇不停地向人们展示、炫耀。光看他的故事就能让人吓一跳：科学家制造出了一个机械金刚，用来在北极挖掘神秘的X元素，与此同时邪恶的博士绑架了真正的金刚，令其干同样的活，因此，机械金刚与原形之间的连番恶斗就在所难免了。

　　In the futuristic city of Vanille, with properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes & Ears the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a father and his young son threatens to disintegrate when the father's device begins to fail. Desperate to avoid facing his own traumatic reality, the man must venture outside to find a replacement, into a city where violence and danger lurk beneath a skim of beautiful illusion.

　　Scot想要从歹徒手中救出妹妹，却遭人陷害，被控谋杀，被处以死刑。一位疯狂科学家把Scot的大脑植入大猩猩体内，Scot以大猩猩的身躯复活，开始他的复仇...

　　朱利叶斯·凯尔教授是一个懦弱的人，经常被别人作弄。当一个足球教练在他的全班学生和他喜欢的漂亮学生斯特拉面前侮辱他之后，他决定配制一剂药。当他喝下这剂药后，他变成了一个人人都喜爱的广为人知的充满野性的动物，而且他不再害怕和斯特拉说话。但有一个问题就是，这副药的能量会很快用光。

　　在一个遥远的星球上，一艘坠毁的宇宙飞船上的后代受到了神秘力量的影响，这些力量使他们在短短8天内衰老并死亡。他们还必须住在洞穴里以躲避夜间的严寒和白天的酷热。一个小男孩决心要回到把他们带到那里的那艘船上。但他将如何在剩下的短短时间内完成这一切呢

　　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.

　　東宝ビデオのシネパック第一弾として、1991年11月8日にリリースされたのがこの『ミカドロイド』である。
　　第二次大戦末期、敗色濃厚な日本。その中で帝国陸軍が極秘裏に研究していた秘密兵器、それが人造人間“ジンラ號”。敗戦とともに歴史から抹消されたジンラ號であったが、空襲で埋没した研究所の中、眠り続けていた一体があった。そして今、半世紀の歳月を経て、ジンラ號が東京の地下に蘇る！　ふとした偶然でその地下迷宮に迷い込んでしまった若い男女二人は何を見るのか？　未完成の人造人間として老いる事も出来ずに彷徨い続けてきた謎の男、彼は一体何を望むのか？　本作は舞台となる場所と時間が狭い範囲に限定されているため、物語の密度が濃く、一夜限りの幻想的な悪夢のような作品となっている。
　　ジンラ號のデザインを担当したのはイラストレーターの明日蘭。蒸気機関車のような旧式なラインでまとめられているジンラ號は一見ユーモラスで鈍重な外見だが、内に潜ませた悪夢と狂気が不思議な説得力を持ち、印象深い仕上がりとなっている。またジンラ號専用武器として設計されたという設定の“１００式短機関銃改「ベ式」テラ銃”は、当時の落下傘部隊が使用した実銃をモチーフにいかにもそれらしくまとめられており、ジンラ號の設定をよりリアルな物としている。その他、南部十四年式拳銃や９６式軽機関銃などの各種プロップガンもリアルな作動シーンを見せて画面を引き締めている。
　　監督を務めたのは特殊メイククリエイターとして有名な原口智生。本作は原口自身が長年あたためてきた企画で、原口の監督デビュー作となった。