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哲学系学生肖墨到殡仪馆实习，试图探寻“生死”答案，却遭遇导师陈辉离奇死亡。村里流传一口“应声井”可让人起死回生。陈辉之子死于事故后，陈辉在古井许愿，次日离奇失踪。肖墨随神秘殡葬师老白头返村调查，老白头以科学逐一破解“灵异”现象：井中尸体、养女上吊、浓雾里的鬼打墙等怪事背后皆是精心布局的骗局。当执念遭遇科学，谎言被真相撕裂，众人方知真正的深渊不在井里，而在人心。

　　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.

 故事发生在美国西部大开发时期，燕西（理查德·迪克斯 Richard Dix 饰）带着妻子莎布拉（艾琳·邓恩 Irene Dunne 饰）千里昭昭来到了广袤而又荒芜的俄克纳马拉，心里怀揣着远大的理想，希望能够在这里做出一番建树。俄克纳马拉的生活环境十分艰苦和险峻，然而，夫妻两人同心协力，慢慢改善和建立着他们的家园。在日子渐渐稳定的过程中，在当地生活的牧场主们感到他们的利益受到了侵犯，他们常常会找燕西的麻烦，却又被燕西用智慧巧妙的化解。燕西十分同情在当地生活的印第安土著，与此同时，嫉恶如仇的燕西亦对压迫和剥削原住民的资本家们充满了仇恨，随着时间的推移，双方的矛盾渐渐尖锐起来。

　　一名刺客手持木棍闯进太子府，行刺未果，却散布谣言，说自己握有太子谋反的证据。三皇子声称要助太子调查案情，进驻太子府，实际却命锦衣卫将太子府团团围住，任何人不得出入。太子明白自己又一次陷入郑贵妃精心布下的圈套中，面对渐渐显露的杀机，他无从化解……而此时，王恭妃却执意要将兰心梅儿贬黜回家，任她如何哭泣哀求也不愿收回成命。王恭妃究竟是在为太子雪上加霜，还是另有隐衷？