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　　改编自泉朝树创作的同名畅销漫画，讲述女高中生突然发现自己能看到鬼魂，她选择假装看不见，即使同学被鬼魂缠身，她也视而不见。她能通过这种方法克服这场危机吗？

　　当双胞胎兄弟哈尔和比尔在阁楼上发现父亲的旧猴子玩具之后，他们周围开始发生一系列可怕的死亡事件。兄弟俩决定把猴子扔掉，继续他们的生活，但多年来却越来越疏远。但当神秘的死亡再次开始时，兄弟俩必须重新团结起来，找到一种方法来彻底消灭这只猴子，以免它夺走所有与他们亲近的人的生命。

　　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.

　　阿林（林海峰 饰）一直以来都梦想着能够手执教鞭站上讲台成为教书育人的老师。如今，他的理想终于成为了现实，可是直到此时，他才发现，现实是如此的枯燥和残酷。阿林每日要面对的是调皮的学生和机械化的教学任务，没过多久，阿林的热忱和理想就完全的被磨灭了。　　阿黄（黄秋生 饰）是阿林的同事兼好友，身为单身爸爸的他和五岁的儿子过着相依为命的生活。某日，学校里新调来了漂亮开朗的李老师（徐子淇 饰），李老师的出现让阿林和阿黄在苍白的生活里看到了新的色彩。阿林和阿黄同时喜欢上了李老师，但得知了阿黄的心意，阿林决定默默的退出。