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　　所有人都以为，艾米（米拉·库妮丝 Mila Kunis 饰）拥有着幸福美满的婚姻生活——恩爱的丈夫，乖巧的孩子，优渥的生活条件，但只有艾米自己知道，为了维系这看似光鲜的表象，她的内心早已经精疲力尽。丈夫把所有的家务事都一股脑的甩在她的头上，在处理这些琐事的同时，艾米还必须兼顾着去讨好她周围其他的妈妈们。　　终于有一天，艾米再也受不了她的生活了，她离开了家庭，抛弃了丈夫和孩子，带着闺蜜琪琪（克里斯汀·贝尔 Kristen Bell 饰）和卡拉（凯瑟琳·哈恩 Kathryn Hahn 饰），两名同样受到生活疯狂压榨的家庭主妇，三人踏上了一条疯狂的狂欢之路。

　　本集收录新作《造了不开启的房间》《有内情的KTV》及过去二十年名作选《交出手臂》《身后的女人》《深夜的镜像》《悬崖下》《书本招来的幽灵》《出租车司机的经历》《多出一人的电梯》《颜之道》。

　　凯撒（安迪·瑟金斯 饰）领导的猿族将被迫与残暴的Colonel（伍迪·哈里森 饰）领导的人类军队上演一场生死大战。猿族在战斗中遭遇了前所未有的重创，由此激发了凯撒内心中黑暗的一面，心中燃起复仇的烈火。最终，凯撒与Colonel面对面进行了一场关乎猿族和人类命运的终极之战。

　　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.