囚禁的快感

　　利用《電子戰(zhàn)場2》留下的片段和一條非常細的故事線，亞歷克斯再次與1998年在非洲東部的機器人雇傭兵作戰(zhàn)。這一次，亞歷克斯發(fā)現(xiàn)她有20個半姐妹正在等她回到2077年。中央司令部希望亞歷克斯被活捉并掃描，看看她的DNA是否比正常的DNA更強更有力。但是亞歷克斯可能太苛刻了，不值得去捕捉。

　　沒有任何人氣的鬼怪小說作家嚴冬自命不凡，雖然專寫靈異題材，但是卻從不相信世上有鬼。他的經(jīng)紀人兼好友包勁希望他能盡快寫出真正恐怖且吸引人的作品，為此和他打賭世上到底有沒有鬼。兩人來到鄉(xiāng)下，在專門為他人做法事的三姐的庵堂住了下來。三姐的徒弟們活潑三八，獨有沉默的阿樂不與眾人為伍。阿樂自幼擁有天眼，能夠看到另一個世界的眾生，為了不惹麻煩上身而小心回避他們。另一方面，嚴冬在包勁和女孩們的幫助下終于見到了鬼，卻險些嚇破膽，關(guān)鍵時刻多虧阿樂相救。　　自此之后他們越來越熟，而見鬼的日子也越來越多，盤桓在人間的眾生希望借助他們得到超度……

　　這是一部終極警匪拍檔動作喜劇，除了他們并不是真的警察。當一對窮途末路的好兄弟選擇以警裝參加了一場化妝舞會后，他們成為了街坊鄰居的大人物。這對新崛起的英雄在面對真實世界的歹徒惡棍及游走黑白的貪污警探時，他們拿起假證件整裝備戰(zhàn)。

　　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.