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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.

　　影片讲述的是一位新妈妈 Mary （克里斯蒂·柏克 饰）保护新生儿 Adam（Grace Christensen 饰）的故事。Mary 生了一对双胞胎，但其中只有 Adam 存活了下来。在照顾 Adam 的过程中她疯狂地认为有某种超自然的实体在不惜任何代价地把 Adam 从她身边带走。

　　美国海军上校尼尔逊（沃尔特皮金饰）领导潜艇海景号在北极下探测时，地球突生危机，大气层被一股大火燃烧，令地球极速升温，地球上干旱无雨，顿诚人间炼狱。科学家主张纷歧，尼尔逊决定由海景号发射核子飞弹，让其在大气层外爆炸以期熄灭大火，令地球降温。为求能够快速解决这个问题，尼尔逊毅然由船员自愿选择是留在船上还是继续前进，但是在全世界都没有办法的情况下，只有听命于尼尔逊的这个计划了……

　凯拉（劳拉·乔丹 Laura Jordan 饰）、梅丽莎（尼姬·埃克斯 Nicki Aycox 饰）、鲍比（尼克·扎诺 Nick Zano 饰）和尼克（凯尔·施密德 Kyle Schmid 饰）等四个年轻人正驱车前往拉斯维加斯，准备参加那里举行的聚会。他们的车载半路抛锚，四人寻求帮助时在荒野找到一座空无一人的房子，继而在仓库里找到一辆跑车。经过一番讨论，他们决定留下联系方式，暂时把车开走，并负责赔偿车主的损失。                                                                    　　然而他们的想法过于天真，这辆汽车的主人正是恐怖的锈钉（马克·吉本 Mark Gibbon 饰），凯拉等人破门而入和偷走汽车的行为彻底惹恼了他，锈钉的疯狂狩猎也随即展开。凯拉等人命悬一线…