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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.

在一次武装袭击失败后，海伦抛弃了她的同伴，逃进了森林，并遇到了凯瑟琳，一个神秘的另一个自我，一个充满野性且极具诱惑的分身。这个分身将带她来到一个奇幻的山谷，在那里，变形、邪恶的力量以及巨大的动荡很快就会打破原有的秩序。海伦将不得不重新审视自己的选择，以及那些限制着这些选择的道德、政治和人性方面的两难困境。

　　本片根据印度畅销书作家奇坦·巴哈特（Chetan Bhagat）的处女作小说《五点人》（Five Point Someone）改编而成。法兰（马德哈万 R Madhavan 饰）、拉杜（沙曼·乔希 Sharman Joshi 饰）与兰乔（阿米尔·汗 Aamir Khan 饰）是皇家工程学院的学生，三人共居一室，结为好友。在以严格著称的学院里，兰乔是个非常与众不同的学生，他不死记硬背，甚至还公然顶撞校长“病毒”（波曼·伊拉尼 Boman Irani 饰），质疑他的教学方法。他不仅鼓动法兰与拉杜去勇敢追寻理想，还劝说校长的二女儿碧雅（卡琳娜·卡普 Kareena Kapoor 饰）离开满眼铜臭的未婚夫。兰乔的特立独行引起了模范学生“消音器”（奥米·维嘉 Omi Vaidya 饰）的不满，他约定十年后再与兰乔一决高下，看哪种生活方式更能取得成功。　　本片获孟买电影博览奖最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳配角（波曼·伊拉尼）、最佳剧本等六项大奖，并获国际印度电影协会最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳剧情、最佳摄影等十六项大奖。

　　迈尔斯（保罗•吉亚玛提 Paul Giamatti 饰）和杰克（托马斯•哈登•丘奇 Thomas Haden Church 饰）是老朋友了，看着杰克即将踏入婚姻殿堂，迈尔斯更加感叹起自己失败的生活：婚姻失败、作家梦遥不可及、干着无聊枯燥的职业、不再年轻的岁数。迈尔斯对葡萄酒的研究颇为深厚，于是两个人决定前往加州的葡萄酒生产基地狂欢一次，如果遇上一夜情当然是最好不过了。　　果然二人在酒香浓郁的加州遇上了女招待和她的亚裔朋友，迈尔斯和杰克的艳遇让两人都兴奋不已。然而接下来的事情却大扫兴致。他们的狂欢计划充满了障碍。