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　　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.

　　由21 個(gè)鬧劇穿插一部科幻短片組成的鬧劇，導(dǎo)演羅伯特（《怪異的阿爾 楊克維奇》）、約翰（《動(dòng)物屋》）等等都是環(huán)球影片公司的一線導(dǎo)演，他們的共同特點(diǎn)就是在搞怪搞笑方面各有絕招。這些短片大都是對(duì)美國(guó)夜間電視節(jié)目和低成本科幻片的戲仿，故事包括一個(gè)男子受到他所住的房子攻擊、一場(chǎng)由喜劇演員主持的葬禮和被吸進(jìn)電視機(jī)里的人等等。　　眼花繚亂 滿嘴放炮

　　一位邪惡的馬戲團(tuán)老板在幾位高中生的小鎮(zhèn)上演“鬼屋”，他們必須抗拒他的魔咒。

　　女警阿玲（舒淇 飾）身邊有一對(duì)兒癡狂的追求者，但她的心思在那個(gè)夢(mèng)中搭救她的白衣男子身上。好友祖兒（陳逸寧 飾）得到了一份前往馬來(lái)西亞拍攝廣告的工作，心情不佳的阿玲隨同旅行。介紹祖兒工作的波比陳（林雪 飾）為人輕浮好色，暗中還是黑市交易中間人，波比陳正籌劃從大哥潘（任達(dá)華 飾）手中引進(jìn)飛彈導(dǎo)航系統(tǒng)，而這一交易，被兩名私家偵探華哥（許紹雄 飾）和埃里克斯（安志杰 飾）伺機(jī)破壞。埃里克斯誤會(huì)阿玲是波比陳的交易對(duì)象，而阿玲則認(rèn)為埃里克斯是自己的夢(mèng)中英雄，兩人懷著不同的目的開(kāi)始交往。另一方面，香港小賊阿蟹（杜汶澤 飾）盲打誤撞破壞了波比陳和大哥潘的交易，幾路人馬陷入了沖突和誤會(huì)……