VN.007 Cheryl青樹

　　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.

　　三毛（賈林 Jia Lin 飾）從來就是銀幕上喜劇人物。這次，三毛從軍了。抗日戰(zhàn)爭全面爆發(fā)了，無所事事的三毛一心想著為國立功，加入了軍隊(duì)。不料，新兵訓(xùn)練的時候就笑話百出。手榴彈實(shí)彈投擲訓(xùn)練時，三毛一不小心就將手榴彈投到了戰(zhàn)壕里，搞得全軍上下一片烏黑。稀里糊涂的三毛隨后參加了一支敢死隊(duì)，笑話百出的他和隊(duì)友們竟一股全殲了敵軍。　　抗敵有功，三毛高升到后勤部，不用再上戰(zhàn)場了，卻成了師長姨太太的跟班。整天被使喚也鬧了不少笑話。不料兵敗師長自殺，三毛又重投兵營。一次執(zhí)行空降任務(wù)時，三毛和以前的知心戰(zhàn)友遭到伏擊，大難不死卻落入深山。一等就等到了抗戰(zhàn)結(jié)束，三毛和戰(zhàn)友早已成了野人。

 一個被埋藏的秘密，正準(zhǔn)備被揭開。失蹤多年的凱蒂突然回來，但回來的，真的還是原本的她嗎？那些看似“好轉(zhuǎn)”的變化，其實(shí)，是另一種腐敗的開始。

　　厭倦了逼仄臟亂的小公寓，正值青春年少的美麗女孩冰通過網(wǎng)絡(luò)找到一所寬敞闊氣且租金極為便宜的大房子，事不宜遲，她連忙致電屋主預(yù)約時間，并叫上同公寓好友妮娜隨她一同看房。雖然妮娜對該房第一印象不佳，卻無法改變冰的決定。不久之后，滿心歡喜的冰搬入新居，誰知從第一天開始便有怪事在身邊發(fā)生。在此之后，種種詭異事件交替發(fā)生，甚至冰的意識也受到侵襲。擔(dān)心好友的安危，妮娜趕來冰的身邊。　　只是恐怖事件并未就此告一段落，仿佛被詛咒了一般，美麗女孩落入充滿玄幻和恐怖氣息的死亡陷阱之中……