愛音まりあ – Maria3 My time will come

　　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.

　　丹妮原本和丈夫泰德正在翻修偏僻的乡间别墅，却在此地惨遭杀害，所有人都怀疑是当地精神病院的病人所为，因为泰德正是该院的一名医生。然而，案发后不久，嫌疑人就被发现死亡。一年后，丹妮的双胞胎盲妹达茜（Darcy），一个自称通灵者和诅咒物品收藏家的人，意外拜访了泰德和他的新女友雅娜。达茜深信她姐姐的谋杀案远比人们知道的要严重得多，因此她带来了她收藏的最危险的诅咒物品，以帮助她复仇。

　　现场网的马楠（孙骁潇 饰）和小鱼（吴楚 饰）是一对相恋多年的情侣，马楠不久在郊外购得一处房产，刚好又赶上小鱼的生日。于是他叫来同事兼好友张博（吴超 饰）、吴晓（冯波 饰）、龙梅（王思思 饰），为小鱼策划了一次生日派对，并计划向小鱼求婚。除了曾与小鱼有过露水因缘张博外，整晚的派对都在欢快的气氛下进行。马楠家隔壁住着一对经常吵架的夫妻，异常聒噪的吵闹声引起吴晓等八卦女的好奇，她们结伴来到隔壁一探究竟，却意外发现恐怖血腥的杀人现场。　　原本就住户稀少的公寓，此时仿佛变成一座巨大的鬼屋。不断闪烁的灯光，凄厉刺耳的尖叫声以及丧心病狂的杀人者。一种如瘟疫般的病毒在公寓内肆意蔓延……

一对出现感情危机的情侣，奔赴荒山深处的度假屋，展开浪漫之旅。然而各怀心事的两人彼此设计，意外被卷入一场绑架与追杀。荒山夜逃、冰湖惊魂，在绝境的生死考验中，他们被迫携手同行，危机四伏间，爱与信任被重新唤醒，二人终于明白相守的意义。