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　　一名叫达尔的走失男孩被小镇人们发现，由于没人认领，他被带到福利院。经过检查，医生发现他身体各项机能正常，而且智商很高，只是失去了一部分的记忆。　　达尔被安排暂时居住在安迪家。安迪和妻子乔依斯一直希望能够领养一个孩子，达尔的到来令他们异常兴奋。在相处的过程中，达尔和邻居家的小男孩特塔成为了非常要好的朋友，他们一起上学、一起玩耍、一起为安迪的棒球队赢得了胜利，大家都觉得达尔是个非常聪明而且惹人喜爱的男孩。　　忽然有一天，两个自称是达尔父母的人来接走了达尔，这令安迪全家和特塔非常伤心。达尔也对他们产生了深厚的感情，恋恋不舍地离开了安迪家。　　事实上达尔是一个在大脑中被植入芯片的机器人，但他现在具备了一个正常孩子的一切生理机能。来接他的也并非他的父母，而是制造他的博士。博士被达尔和安迪他们的深厚情感所感动，他希望达尔能像正常孩子一样生活，但国家的高级官员却要求摧毁达尔。博士在同事的配合下，将达尔带出试验基地，遭到警察的追击，途中博士为了掩护达尔中弹身亡。　　达尔潜入空军基地，开着战斗机向安迪家的方向飞去。空军基地地面遥控飞机在飞行过程中自动摧毁，达尔弹出飞机，降落在安迪家旁边的湖中。达尔终于回到了属于他的“家”中。

　　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.

 Con artist Fabian, on the run from his pursuers, ends up at a winter wedding where he plans to steal a valuable statue. But then a murder derails his plans.