我们疯狂的年代

　　大学毕业后，Bridget和她最好的朋友Lindsay搬到了一个新的城镇。她得到了一份担任Anthony Gloss行政助理的工作，但她很快发现，奢侈的生活可能会付出致命的代价。

 富有魅力的牧场主菲尔·伯班克（本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇 饰）让他周围的人又敬又怕。当他的兄弟将新婚妻子以及她的儿子带回家时，菲尔百般折磨他们，直到有一天，他发现自己对爱也存有一丝渴望。

　　在某临近海滨的医院内，住着一个无依无靠的中年男子金珉昊（千浩振 饰）。由于左半边身体失去知觉，加上脑神经受损，因此他无时无刻不想了结这苦难的人生。这一日，医院送来了另一位没有任何亲眷的病号，他的名字叫做朴尚桦（刘海镇 饰），因脑部受损而失去了记忆，与金安排在同一个加护病房。朴的到来，激起金珉昊心中无限的波澜。这两个男人似乎曾有着无限的仇恨与瓜葛，致令金想尽各种办法要置其于死地，而渐渐恢复记忆的朴也将同样的仇恨倾泻于金珉昊。　　与此同时，神秘的白医生一反常态对两个男人进行特殊关护，并且用匪夷所思的治疗方法帮助他们恢复健康。这一切的背后，似乎隐藏着更大的谜团……

　　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.