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　　獲得第24屆圣丹斯電影節(jié)劇情片類評(píng)委會(huì)大獎(jiǎng)的《雷管》，講述的是四位合作者出于興趣發(fā)明了一臺(tái)查錯(cuò)儀器，卻意外地發(fā)現(xiàn)這臺(tái)儀器擁有強(qiáng)大的商業(yè)價(jià)值，最終四人相互爭斗的局面?！独坠堋肥菍?dǎo)演什恩-卡魯斯(ShaneCaruth)首次執(zhí)導(dǎo)的劇情長片，該片由他自己投資，并身兼編劇、導(dǎo)演、主演數(shù)職，體現(xiàn)出獨(dú)立電影的“DIY”精神。另外，令人津津樂道的是該片不足7000美元的超低制作成本，只相當(dāng)于一輛富康車的價(jià)錢……

　　A retired special forces agent must battle a group of vengeful psychopaths and the African wilderness to get back to her daughter.

　　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.

 菜埔（莊益增 飾）是一家雕塑廠的夜間保安，家中有一位重病的老母親需要照顧。肚財(cái)（陳竹昇 飾）是菜埔唯一的朋友，菜埔經(jīng)常在值夜班的時(shí)候把肚財(cái)叫過來和他作伴。一天，兩人突發(fā)奇想決定看一看菜埔的老板黃啟文（戴立忍 飾）的行車記錄儀里記錄了哪些影像，希望向來風(fēng)流的老板能夠貢獻(xiàn)出一些精彩的片段以解兩個(gè)獨(dú)身男人內(nèi)心里的寂寞之苦。行車記錄儀所記錄的影像果然沒有讓菜埔和肚財(cái)失望，但與此同時(shí)，兩人也發(fā)現(xiàn)了黃啟文的許多不可告人的秘密。實(shí)際上，菜埔和肚財(cái)?shù)囊慌e一動(dòng)皆沒有逃過黃啟文的眼睛，為了保住自己的地位和名聲，他決定采取一些必要的行動(dòng)。