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　　广州末代西关小姐潘梦蝶，曾是一位绝代佳人，如今住在西关大屋中。在将近一个世纪的时间长河里，她坚守着自己的爱情，坚守着家族的秘密，坚守着属于她自己的祖屋……社区民警马思鹏是一位身手矫健、头脑聪颖、乐于助人的人民警察。他接到了一桩名为“代号西关小姐”的涉毒案件。在调查的过程中，马思鹏结识潘梦蝶及其后人叶伊西。随着案件的深入，许多不为人知的秘密随之解开，一场关于警民、亲情、血缘等复杂情感的生死较量即将展开……

1457年的清泠浦，一场注定失败的守护，一段永被铭记的情谊。

一如往常，护理师露西奔走于各个小儿科病房，BP机、哭喊声填满了她的崩溃日常。但今晚，有个小孩让她格外心力交瘁：四岁的亚当因营养不良入院观察，他妈妈海蓓卡执意要彻夜守在孩子身旁，偏偏她被法院裁定照顾失当，不得长时间探访。为了让拒绝进食的亚当乖乖吃饭，露西打算破例让她留下，岂料海蓓卡却想悄悄偷走亚当⋯⋯

　　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.