時(shí)隔5年的相遇

　　安吉拉（珍妮·蓋諾 Janet Gaynor 飾）的母親身患重病，急需藥物進(jìn)行治療。生活在窮困潦倒之中的安吉拉無奈之下只能行竊救命，她的舉動(dòng)自然遭到了警方的通緝和追捕，安吉拉就此踏上了逃亡的旅途?！　⊥局?，安吉拉來到了一個(gè)馬戲團(tuán)之中，隱姓埋名成為了其中的一名演員，這正好幫助她拜托了警方的糾纏。在馬戲團(tuán)中，安吉拉邂逅了名為基諾（查爾斯·法萊爾 Charles Farrell 飾）的年輕畫家?；Z雖然有著一身的才華卻依舊只是一個(gè)名不見經(jīng)傳的無名畫家，安吉拉的出現(xiàn)激發(fā)了他的靈感，幫助他取得了事業(yè)上的成就，墜入愛河的兩人決定結(jié)婚，但在婚禮舉行之際，警方還是發(fā)現(xiàn)了安吉拉的蹤跡。

　　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.

　　查理的前妻失蹤了，于是他去了她長大的地方，一個(gè)位于西部的鄉(xiāng)村城鎮(zhèn)尋找她。 但是，令人驚訝的是，沒有人知道她或她親戚的所在。 然后他又遇到外星人，但是當(dāng)他聯(lián)系聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局時(shí)，并沒有人相信他。 他只好將故事登報(bào)，并隨即受到了外星人的追殺。

　　核子戰(zhàn)爭浩劫一直是人類社會(huì)揮之不去的陰影，萬一在哪一天真的爆發(fā)了核戰(zhàn)，那將會(huì)是什么景象呢？這部尼古拉斯．邁耶導(dǎo)演的電視電影就是根據(jù)這種推測拍成的作品，用寫實(shí)手法刻劃美國堪薩斯州勞倫斯市發(fā)生核彈爆炸后的各種景況，從而探討外在世界的變化和人性的內(nèi)在演變，主題具省思意識，在1983年美國首播時(shí)曾造成極大轟動(dòng)。幾位主要演員：賈森．羅巴茲、喬拜茲．威廉斯、史蒂夫．加頓伯格、約翰．李斯可、埃米．馬迪根等均有緊扣人心的精彩演出。