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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.

　　纵横江湖二十年的黑帮大佬任因久（梁家辉 饰）树敌无数，因此屡遭他人暗算，并得知有人要在24小时内取他性命。任因久即刻以“江湖告急”的名义，传令召开江湖大会，势必找出谁要害他。

　　毕业于某高中的考特尼（Laura Ashley Samuels 饰）、瑞安（皮尔森·福德 Pierson Fode 饰）、南森（乔·阿德勒 Joe Adler 饰）等人聚在一起聊天，他们俊朗美丽，当初都是学校里备受人关注的明星人物。只不过站在顶端的风云儿常常促狭无度，他们随意捉弄其他同学，并以此为乐，当然彼此心中默默守护着一个不可轻易为外人道的秘密。某天，他们的同学吉米被一个带着玛丽莲·梦露面具的人抓住，随后以极其残酷的手段虐待致死。这件事令众人大为震惊，而他们随后也不约而同遭遇各种奇怪事件。　　一切似乎指向数年前发生在珊地海滩的一次“意外”，他们的一位同学溺水身亡，而刻意被隐藏的“意外”则成为他们今天深陷死亡漩涡的肇因。

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