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　　20世纪末，波黑战火笼罩的巴尔干地区。聋哑少女安吉尔（罗茜·戴伊 Rosie Day 饰）目睹了亲人邻居被武装分子残忍杀害的一幕，在此之后她也失去自由，与数名同龄女孩被掳至暴徒维克托（凯文·霍华斯 Kevin Howarth 饰）所盘踞的地狱之所。女孩们被迫沦为性奴，饱受摧残与折磨，生命卑微有如在暴风雨中摇曳的烛火。身处无声世界的安吉尔似乎得到上天微薄的怜惜，她每天的工作便是穿梭于各个房间，为女孩们擦拭血迹，注射药物，缓解疼痛，小小年纪却见识了人世间最残酷的景象。惨无人道且防守严密的人间炼狱，安吉尔决定带着姐妹们逃出生天。当杀母仇人格伦突然来到此地，一切走向失控的边缘……　　本片荣获2013年葡萄牙国际奇幻电影节影评人选择奖。

　　该片讲述了新时代，主人公陈建国回到家乡，凭借创新精神和不懈努力，将曾经“脏乱差”问题突出的家乡成功打造为远近闻名的民宿旅游村，不仅带动了乡村经济的蓬勃发展，显著改善了村民的生活环境，更是引领村民踏上了共同富裕的小康道路，深刻展现了乡村振兴、创新合作、青年担当以及乡村发展的巨大潜力。

　　少女幸子（宫崎葵饰）和老师的师生恋绯闻被传得风风雨雨，相依为命的母亲稔子（Ryo饰）则自杀未遂。打击不断的生活令幸子无法承受，升入中学后，她不去上学，每天闲逛打发时间。她和依靠小偷小摸赚钱的少年隆夫、精神脆弱的中年人久蔵成为了朋友。隆夫离开后，幸子和好友夏子（苍井优饰）返回了学校。　　不久后，她又差点被母亲的新欢德川强暴。谣言又起，幸子失望地离开学校。昔日的老师恋人现在发电所工作，幸子准备去他那里。然而在约定的小茶店里等了很久，他还是没有出现。灰心的幸子跟一个前来搭讪的男子离开茶店……

1457年的清泠浦，一场注定失败的守护，一段永被铭记的情谊。

　　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.