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　　諸家老太有兩個兒子夢龍和夢飛，以及一個養孫國榮。16年前，一伙以張振邦為首的歹徒為了報復諸老太在公安局工作的丈夫，欲把夢龍和夢飛活埋，國榮的父親得知后，救出了兄弟倆，自己卻被燒死，諸老太為了報恩，收養了國榮，并且對他十分疼愛。不想，16年后的今天，國榮卻陷入了張的販毒集團。夢龍出于對國榮的愛護，在知道國榮販毒后，私下包庇他。在公安局工作的夢飛在緝拿國榮的過程中，國榮因拒捕被擊斃，夢龍被夢飛帶上了手銬。

　　在一個肅殺的夜晚，滿身傷痕的女孩西恩娜（艾麗森·蘭格 Allison Lange 飾）跌跌撞撞沖入公路。她隨即被送往醫院，在探員贊恩（詹森·倫敦 Jason London 飾）的詢問下，驚魂未定的西恩娜終于說出了那段恐怖經歷。　　兩周前，她和同在醫科大學念書的好友斯科特（B.J. Britt 飾）、杰森（尼克·霍爾莫斯 Nick Holmes 飾）、本（C.J. Thomason 飾）、夏儂等人結伴外出游玩。他們駐留在一所古堡，看似一切充滿了刺激和樂趣，但是這份無上喜悅很快便蒙上一層陰影。在他們身后，似乎有一個手執手術刀的奪命醫生蠢蠢欲動，死神的腳步越來越近。這群躊躇滿志的未來醫生，儼然成為了手術臺上的致命犧牲品……

　　影片講述了奧茲國兩位女巫鮮為人知的成長故事。因綠色皮膚而備受誤解的艾芙芭（辛西婭·埃里沃 Cynthia Erivo 飾）與光彩奪目、野心勃勃的格琳達（愛莉安娜·格蘭德 Ariana Grande 飾）在西茲大學結識，性格迥異的二人卻建立起了深厚的友誼。然而，隨著與奧茲國大巫師的邂逅，她們的友誼走向十字路口，二人面臨著截然不同的命運之路。這段奇幻冒險揭示了友誼、力量與自我發現的真諦。

　　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.