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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.

　　故事发生在某个毗邻原始森林的小镇，一家伐木公司正在林中作业，这时白雪飘然落下，作业暂时停止，然而随即便发生了残酷血腥的事件。与此同时，警长保罗·希尔德（凯文·杜兰德 Kevin Durand 饰）和新来的搭档唐尼刚刚敷衍完几个报警事件，随后驱车来到前妻苏珊（Bianca Kajlich 饰）的家中，接走儿子亚当（Ethan Khusidman 饰）回自家居住。一夜无事，次日一早，保罗在门口发现硕大的脚印，而且脚印遍布小镇主干道，一直延伸到森林深处。巨大的脚印在小镇闹得人心惶惶，保罗起初绝不相信妖精怪物一类的传说，但是恐怖血腥的事件接二连三发生，让小镇陷入前所未有的恐慌之中。　　危机渐次逼近……

　　故事发生在繁华的大都市东京，十四岁的少女阿绿（中村里砂 饰）失去了唯一的亲人，孤苦无依的她在误打误撞之中走进了名为“赤猫座”的巡回马戏团中，就此拉开了悲惨人生的序幕。无处可去的阿绿在马戏团中受尽了众人的凌辱和折磨，沦为奴隶和佣人，日子过得苦不堪言，每一天都是地狱般的写照 。　　就在阿绿快要绝望之时，侏儒魔术师出现在了马戏团中，出现在了她的眼前。侏儒魔术师的出现让快要倒闭的马戏团重现生机，他亦成为了马戏团中最重要的成员。与此同时，阿绿在魔术师的身上找到了久违的温暖和感情，两人决定结婚，双双逃离这充满了痛苦的魔窟。

　　尤哈（萨卡里·库斯曼嫩 Sakari Kuosmanen 饰）和玛利亚（卡蒂·奥廷宁 Kati Outinen 饰）是一对生活在幸福和平淡之中的老夫少妻，两人住在他们经营的农场里，离群索居不问世事。一天，一个名叫辛麦卡（安德烈·维尔姆斯 André Wilms 饰）的男人来到了农场，他的车抛锚了。善良的尤哈邀请辛麦卡在农场过夜，哪知道就此为自己找了个麻烦。　　原来，辛麦卡是一个油嘴滑舌的花花公子，他花言巧语诱惑和哄骗了玛利亚，最终，玛利亚决定和辛麦卡私奔。然而，来到了大城市后，辛麦卡才露出了自己的真面目，他将玛利亚卖到了一家妓院里替自己工作。当尤哈得知了玛利亚的近况后，他决定向辛麦卡寻仇。