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　　本作由井上刚担任导演，与NHK四月播出的剧集《地震之后》共享故事框架，同时新增场景重新剪辑而成。该片基于村上春树短篇小说集《神的孩子全跳舞》中四则短篇，讲述关于丧失与重生的故事。描绘1995年阪神淡路大地震后，四个在不同时代与地域背负孤独生存之人的命运交织，最终与当下产生联结的历程。

　　一个酗酒的二逼必须跟另一帮沙漠里面脑子有病的残忍土老帽儿玩儿被猎杀的游戏，你觉着他能坚持到最后么　　五名酗酒者, 成为贝德福德平原狩猎小镇的狩猎对象, 而沃伦则是佼佼者, 他们与镇民展开了输死搏斗, 面对全副武装的镇民, 他们能否逃出升天?　　得知前女友在墨西哥過世而且留下他們的女兒，酒鬼沃倫決定當個好父親，開始戒酒並前去接回女兒。途經一座沙漠小鎮停車休息，卻在當地意外陷入昏迷；再醒來後，沃倫發現自己恰巧遇上小鎮的狩獵季節，而獵物竟是沃倫與其他旅客！除了要應付鎮民的瘋狂追殺，同時還要克服不斷襲來的戒斷症狀，沃 倫能否順利逃出沙漠，與女兒共享天倫之樂？

　　A retired special forces agent must battle a group of vengeful psychopaths and the African wilderness to get back to her daughter.

　　太阳党是一个恐怖组织，其首领救世主（林国斌 饰）善于开发战争机器人，他和女友玛利亚（叶倩文 饰）经常利用自己开发的机器人“先锋一号”大肆破坏。由于“先锋一号”威力强大，警方也常常束手无策。小徐原是英雄党的一分子，后来对自己团伙的所作所为深感不满而在师傅的担保下脱离了该组织。一次小徐在酒吧偶遇了专为警方开发战争机器人的专家阿毛（岑建勋 饰），两人一见如故，成为了好朋友。岂料太阳党因此怀疑小徐出卖了自己，因此派出新研制的机器人——外形和玛利亚一模一样的“先锋二号”追杀小徐；更糟糕的是，警方亦因此怀疑阿毛出卖了政府，因而同时派人前来捉捕他们。一对好兄弟，能否逃出生天？

　　电影一直与阳春白雪相关，似乎很少有人把它与下里巴人联系在一起。可河南某小镇某小村，却发生了一件事，让电影与下里巴人进行了一次对接。村里的电影放映员蔡有才（李易祥 饰）一直有一个梦想，那就是亲自拍一部电影。这不是闹着玩的，有才果真开始实践起了拍电影之梦。围绕着鬼子进村的主题，有才开始寻找演员，构造场景，可这些非专业出身的演员和资金的限制，让片场状况百出也笑话百出，经过各种磨难，有才还是咬牙坚持了下来。　　本片为真人真事改编，全程用河南话进行对白。真实情形为河南许昌县灵井镇兴元铺村的农民赵兰卿发动村民一起自编自导自演了一部名为《鬼子进村》的电影，开创了农民自己拍电影的先河。

　　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.