VN.066-芷兒Momoko

　　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.

　　一個手握政府機密的AWOL海軍成員正被俄國特工和一個危險的殺手追緝

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　　某個晴朗假日，美國青年尼克（Jay Gillespie 飾）和好友史蒂文（Nick Eversman 飾）驅(qū)車穿越國境線，打算前往墨西哥的提華納尋找一次絕佳的艷遇。他們很快便鎖定了一個性感尤物，但是突如其來的意外讓二人的狂歡設(shè)想灰飛煙滅。正當(dāng)他們垂頭喪氣之際，某當(dāng)?shù)厝怂徒o二人一個精致的魔方。尼克和史蒂文的命運就此改寫，他們也有如人間蒸發(fā)一般消失?！　∧峥撕褪返傥牡氖й櫧o各自家人莫大的打擊，在一次家庭聚會中，艾瑪（Tracey Fairaway 飾）從兩人的行李中找到了那枚魔方，而渾身是血的史蒂文也突然出現(xiàn)在房間內(nèi)。家人們對此感到驚奇喜悅，卻不知道丁頭鬼的魔爪正慢慢伸向他們……