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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.

　　1982年冬天，挪威科考队的一架直升机突然打破了南极大陆的平静，直升机疯狂的追逐一只雪橇犬，最后坠毁在美国科考营地的附近。美国科考队员对挪威考察队近期人员骤减的情况有所耳闻，于是飞行员麦克（Kurt Russell 饰）与众人赶赴挪威营地，结果看到的是一地破败中四处散落着奇怪的尸体，并有证据表明挪威人得到了某种冰封状态中的生物。医生布莱尔（Wilford Brimley 饰）研究了尸体的变异却无法破解成因。当晚，犬笼中的狗遭到袭击并发生了变异，一种不可知的生物正在这孤寂的南极大陆威胁着科考队员们的生命……　　本片翻拍自1951年由霍华德•霍克斯指导的《The Thing From Another World》。

　　第一次出国的艾莉西亚从加州到了南美，并和表姐的朋友们一起，踏上了一段远离城市的旅程。然而表姐半途有事而返，留下她与三个陌生人。这三个陌生人中，一个是时不时做出奇怪举动，说话不顾后果，甚至有虐 待倾向的同性恋，一个是郁郁寡欢，总是板着面孔，似乎对艾莉西亚做的任何事都不满意的大姐，还有一个是表姐那个看起来虽然友善，却痴迷于催眠术的男朋友。面对陌生的国度，奇怪的人，空荡的房间，狂野的世界，艾莉西亚脆弱的神经不断受到挑战。失眠、梦魇、幻觉带来了焦虑、惊恐、不安，艾莉西亚要怎样走完这一段旅程，又是否能脱离险境?

多年以后，苏珊和她的两个孩子意外地出现在她姐姐珍妮的家中。起初看起来像是苏珊在试探性地试图重新与姐姐建立关系。但随着晨光的出现，这种幻觉破灭了：苏珊消失了……内森·安布罗西奥尼的这部亲密电影，描绘了一位被迫成为母亲的女人，而她对自己的孩子几乎一无所知。他那极简主义的叙事方式，却充满了深刻的共情，让观众得以观察这个新生家庭逐渐凝聚的缓慢过程，以及他们内心的恐惧与犹豫，还有那毫无效率的国家机器的荒谬之处。这是一部法国电影，它反映了因必要性而产生的共同生活本质的脆弱性，以及当它源于爱时，它会变得多么强大。