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　　东北小镇，白事先生张英豪和卖狐皮的王元顺意气相投。但背地里王元顺却与张英豪的媳妇李文红有染。李文红怀上了王元顺的孩子，王元顺决定杀死张英豪。然而他雇佣来的杀手竟屡屡失手。王元顺杀人不成反被杀手讹钱。无奈之下，他开始挑拨杀手们的关系……一年后，一具尸体惊现废井。警方确定王元顺有重大作案嫌疑。可王元顺却已离奇失踪，仿佛人间蒸发……

　　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.

　　特警队教官欧仁近来诸事不顺，而偏偏警队又突然空降了一个培训生乔汉娜，这个一心想成为法国特警队第一位女警官的培训生就像一颗定时炸弹，她给特警队惹了千奇百怪、层出不穷的麻烦，但每次都歪打正着，和队友一起出色完成各类高难度任务……

　　某个晴朗假日，美国青年尼克（Jay Gillespie 饰）和好友史蒂文（Nick Eversman 饰）驱车穿越国境线，打算前往墨西哥的提华纳寻找一次绝佳的艳遇。他们很快便锁定了一个性感尤物，但是突如其来的意外让二人的狂欢设想灰飞烟灭。正当他们垂头丧气之际，某当地人送给二人一个精致的魔方。尼克和史蒂文的命运就此改写，他们也有如人间蒸发一般消失。　　尼克和史蒂文的失踪给各自家人莫大的打击，在一次家庭聚会中，艾玛（Tracey Fairaway 饰）从两人的行李中找到了那枚魔方，而浑身是血的史蒂文也突然出现在房间内。家人们对此感到惊奇喜悦，却不知道丁头鬼的魔爪正慢慢伸向他们……