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月殒天劫
月殒天劫
连载中 | 2008年月

  《月殒天劫》(Impact),由《Supernatural》、《Reaper》和《Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles》导演Mike Rohl执导的一部科幻灾难迷你剧,将于6月21日、28日在ABC播出。故事主要描述一颗流星击中月球后,导致了一系列灾难性的后果。如同电影《世界末日》(Armageddon)的情节一样,人类派出一支精英团队前往月球,试图寻找拯救地球的最后途径。
  这是不是意味着《月殒天劫》仅仅是一部没有新意的、乏味的「复制品」呢?答案是否定的。这部投资1400万美元、长度为3小时、由Natasha Henstridge、David James Elliott、James Cromwell、Steven Culp等众多知名演员演出的迷你剧,还是有不少独创的亮点。
  正当人们兴致勃勃地欣赏万年一遇的巨型流星雨时,一颗躲藏在流星群中的棕矮星突然冲向月球。巨大的冲击力引起恐怖的爆炸,月球表面的部分区域瞬间碎裂成岩屑。碎片很快坠入地球的大气层,所及之处陷入一片火海。虽然损失并不算大,但极度恐慌的情绪还是在全世界范围内迅速蔓延开来。与此同时,地球上出现了一系列异常--最开始只是手机信号消失、不规则的静电干扰、奇怪的潮汐现象等不太惹人注目的现象,但事情显然并不这么简单。
  世界上最顶尖的科学家们--Alex,Maddie和Roland--开始收集相关线索,试图解读其中的玄机。然而他们惊讶地发现,月球的轨道可能已被彻底改变。更糟糕的是,地球上的异常现象已到了不容忽视的地步--来自月球的巨大「磁涌」已足以干扰地球的地心引力。地球上某些区域里的人、物体甚至汽车,经常无缘无故地陷入短暂的失重状态。这些区域的产生是随机的,相互独立的。
  经过精确计算,Alex等人证实:还有39天的时间,地球将和月球「迎头相撞」,世界的末日、人类的末日将在同一天到来!

枯竭
枯竭
连载中 | 2008年月

  Michael Hanake meets the Blair Witch Project in Kim Gok's Exhausted, a vicious kick in the pants to everyone in the audience, all in the name of "style." A man meets a mute woman, and as any reasonable person would do in such a situation, makes her his prostitute. But the pimping is the least of our problems. As we get exhausted by the grainy faux-16mm camerawork, the film gets increasingly deranged. The closest thing we get to a sympathetic character is the pimp, simply because he's got too much self-respect to fuck a mute whore. Everyone else is either a gory mess, or a gory mess in disguise. Even the prostitute, which even a thug like Lars von Trier would make likeable, comes off as a delirious scary woman whose shrieks strike like blows to the jugular.
  Kim Gok has seemingly abandoned the Marxist critiques of his short films, going instead for mindless brutality which culminates in an endless bloody freak-show involving, among other things, a pair of scissors going where pairs of scissors should not go. In the middle of the bloodbath, we get an extended long take of the beaten prostitute's near-dead face, but it does not elicit sympathy or pity. In fact, images of the victim only make us shy away in shock. (Indeed, the extended sequence led to continuous walk-outs during the Pusan screening.) The long take invites us to stare, but it assumes we're as sadistic as the victimizer (and the film) is. Meanwhile the sound-effects (mostly a rumbling bassline that shakes the theater) pulsates with pure wickedness. With Hanake, shock creates reflection, which asks that we be critical. Here, we only want to escape. I suppose Exhausted has some virtues; the shots of drilling machines and factories provide a mesmerizing phallic backdrop to the pimp and prostitute's pursuits. But everything else hurts too much. At least Kim Ki-duk lets us breathe. Exhausted makes Bad Guy look like Lady and the Tramp. (asiaarts.ucla.edu)