六本木令嬢

太平洋雨夜，海滩尸骸遍野，货船遭巨兽撕碎，灾难预兆降临。边郊监狱内，死刑犯乌川临刑前夜遇史前大蛇袭击，混乱中越狱，却在唐人街被女警秦雅擒获。 恰逢驲珲化工爆发蛇灾，乌川母亲被困车间，他拒捕欲救人，此时各类史前怪兽肆虐，城市沦为炼狱。二人与幸存者躲进超市，合力斩杀潜藏怪物。众人查明，驲珲化工违规排海才引生物报复。 吴川挺身营救母亲与幸存者，击败大蛇阻止二次污染

　　圣诞前夜，虽然家人热切地期盼，但美丽干练的女律师安吉拉（瑞秋·尼科尔斯Rachel Nichols 饰）仍在办公室努力工作，进行最后的冲刺。繁冗的工作终至尾声，安吉拉独自下到地下车库，准备驱车回家。不过她的车无论如何也发动不了，车库电梯门也被锁住，于是她只好向保安托马斯（韦斯·本特利 Wes Bentley 饰）求助。托马斯友善恭敬，热情施以援手，却不知其心中藏着怎样的黑暗念头。　　写字楼大门紧锁，致使准备乘计程车回家的安吉拉在此返回保安室求助托马斯。时机业已成熟，托马斯露出狰狞面目，他绑架了安吉拉，强迫她参加自己的圣诞晚宴。这个爱慕安吉拉的小男人，给安吉拉带来一个宛如噩梦般的圣诞节……

　　一位单亲母亲带着两个女儿在乡下生活数年后重返台北，在热闹的夜市摆起小吃摊。面对新环境，三人以各自的方式努力适应，既要维持生计又要守护家庭完整。当传统观念根深蒂固的外祖父禁止左撇子小孙女使用"恶魔之手"后，这个三代同堂家庭深埋的秘密开始逐渐浮出水面。

　　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.