愛的領悟

　　乾隆年間國泰民安，百姓安居樂業欣欣向榮過的是好不快活。　　皇上在御前侍衛高迪的陪同下前往江南體恤民情。在皇上出宮后一長陰謀正在展開，一位野心勃勃的王爺竟然暗地與當地黑幫勾結一路追殺皇帝。　　在前往惠州城的路上遇上了從京城逃婚離家的野蠻格格賈仁。經過一場“惡斗”后三人決定一同上路，在惠州城的集市遇到了在集市中擺擂臺的“洋鬼子”元宵。元宵在比試中輸給了賈仁格格執意要讓賈仁格格收他為徒。三人想盡辦法卻無法擺脫元宵，無奈只能收下元宵為徒。半夜在惠州城的某客棧，突然出現蒙面黑衣人刺殺皇帝，還好刺客技藝不精，皇帝沒有受到半點傷害。高迪決定四人連夜趕往他的老家避難。　　在高迪家中，皇上遇到高迪的表妹惠喬，皇上對惠喬一見傾心，賈仁格格也慢慢的愛上了那個英俊風流的侍衛高迪。賈仁格格與元宵在回家的路上遇到一對奇丑無比的戀人。兩人因為相貌丑陋所以年過四十還沒成家。善良的賈仁格格便與眾人一起幫助這對苦命鴛鴦籌辦婚禮，終于讓這對苦命戀人有情人終成眷屬。皇上與惠喬，高迪與賈仁在這段日子感情也逐漸升溫。豈料此時皇上與惠喬被蜻蜓幫綁架，高迪與賈仁心急如焚，托朋友四處打聽皇上與惠喬的下落。　　綁架皇上的正是蜻蜓幫的幫主夫人瑤，此女人也曾經是皇上的愛人，當年為了皇帝背叛幫會。由愛生恨，此女對皇上當年棄之不顧的事耿耿與懷。但是在與皇帝相處的這段日子里舊情復燃并偷偷的通知高迪皇帝被囚禁之處。　　在與眾人的幫助下高迪終于找到了皇帝的所在，但在這個時候元宵露出了狐貍尾巴，眾人沒有想到元宵竟然是蜻蜓幫的人，在這個關鍵時候元宵倒戈相向。所幸的是元宵的背叛并沒有個給大家帶來什么麻煩，最后還是將皇帝從蜻蜓幫的魔爪之中救出。通過這次危難四人的感情更是牢固，最后成就了這一段錯體姻緣。

　　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.

　　越戰期間（實際應該是入侵巴拿馬）美軍秘密研制的機器人代號黑金剛突然暴走。一隊雇傭軍潛入叢林進行搜索。大部分被干掉。最后隊長與黑金剛決一死戰時發現黑金剛其實是自己昔日戰友改造而成。黑金剛在最后關頭回心轉意，啟動自我毀滅。。。。

　　故事發生在大約200年前的越南阮朝，探子阿堅受某村莊的邀請，前來調查神秘失蹤的案子....