兄弟姐妹的世界

　　因神秘塔罗牌的指引，那群用魔术“替天行盗”的骑士们杀回来了！“初代四骑士”与三位新生代魔术师携手，目标直指一位钻石大亨——其家族凭借庞大资本与隐秘势力，构建了全球性犯罪网络，也为骑士团布下层层陷阱！面对史上最难的“盗窃任务”，骑士们再现奇迹，上演横跨全球的魔术大秀，与“血色钻石家族”展开骗中骗、局中局、计中计的巅峰博弈……

　　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.

　　残唐乱世，瘟疫横行，传言妖女吴双化为邪祟祸害人间。然而，吴双的哥哥不良人吴令，从不相信自己善良的妹妹会是所谓妖女，他决心以缝尸还魂的秘术，复活被斩首的妹妹，在暗影涌动的瘟神庙中，设下诡局，审判真正的恶人，求一份清白与公道。　　影片根据短篇小说《古庙夜谭》改编。

　　34岁的年轻女子Ella McCay（艾玛·麦基 Emma Mackey 饰）当上了州长，需要努力平衡政坛职责和家庭生活。