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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.

　　澳大利亚摄影记者克莱尔（泰莉莎·帕尔墨 Teresa Palmer 饰）在柏林度假时邂逅了当地男子安迪（马克思·雷迈特 Max Riemelt 饰），一见钟情的两人共度春宵，激情过后意想不到的危险来临，克莱尔醒来时发现自己被安迪反锁在家中，而安迪似乎并不打算让她离开……

　　身形健硕的德里克·汤普森（巨石·强森 Dwayne Johnson 饰）是一个作风粗暴的职业冰球手，由于经常打掉别人的牙齿，因此他在场上得了“牙仙”的绰号。正所谓风云变幻，时代更迭，随着才俊新秀的涌现，德里克也渐渐成为一名过气的板凳选手。狂放自负的他必定心情极度失落，故而经常用冰冷的语言打碎别人的梦想。　　德里克的女友卡莉（艾什莉·贾德 Ashley Judd 饰）有一双可爱的儿女，小女儿刚好处在换牙期，对神秘的牙仙还充满遐想。此时德里克的老毛病又犯了，一心希望向女孩讲述牙仙并不存在的真相。他的粗暴做法惹来了麻烦，牙仙大陆的负责人莉莉（朱丽·安德鲁斯 Julie Andrews 饰）将他变为一个身长翅膀、手持魔杖、衣着短裙的牙仙女，在接下来的两周里，他将被迫以这身装扮为孩子们带去祝福……

 15岁的以色列小男孩莫塞斯（Pierre Boulanger 饰）和父亲（Pierre Boulanger 饰）住在巴黎蓝色大道一幢贫穷脏乱的公寓中。母亲（Isabelle Renauld 饰）离家出走，父亲整天沉迷于书本，还编造出一个并不存在的优秀的哥哥打击莫塞斯。本该享受童年快乐的小男孩压抑阴郁，在附近的流莺献出了自己的第一次。莫塞斯去附近的土耳其穆斯林亚伯拉罕先生（Omar Shariff 饰）的杂货店里偷盗，被亚伯拉罕发现。和蔼的老人原谅了眼前这个小男孩，并亲切地向他传授知识，一老一少从此展开一段弥足珍贵的忘年交……