爱的延续

　　灰度律师李淇（檀健次饰）因出身于聋人家庭，被卷入一场聋人反诈案中。当他利用案件名利双收之时，却未曾想诈骗案远比想象的复杂。这一次，在欲望和良知的抉择中，他会如何破局？　　本片部分取材自CODA律师张琪真实从业经历。

在新疆无垠的静谧雪原上，一个逃离都市的年轻女孩，与一个将回忆锁进信笺的孤独老人，意外成为彼此的“临时家人”。他们一个学着与过去和解，一个学着向未来敞开，在极致纯净的天地间，共同写就一封关于温暖、陪伴与重新开始的冬日治愈诗篇。

一群年轻人在一个服装笑话中串谋，以致命的事故和沉默的协议告终，一群年轻人将受到一位匿名作家的威胁，他想揭露他的黑暗秘密。他们的跟踪者威胁要在社交媒体上发布一本以他们为原型的血腥恐怖小说。每一章都会有一个人死去。由于彼此不信任，这群人将在大学校园中央开始一场生存之战。他们中的任何一个人都有可能成为下一个受害者，或者凶手。

　　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.