妈妈的女儿

　　安东尼（马提亚斯·施维赫夫 Matthias Schweighöfer 饰）和保罗（弗洛里安·大卫·弗里茨 Florian David Fitz 饰）是从小玩到大的青梅竹马，两人共同经历了太多的事情，彼此之间的友谊坚不可破。成年之后，他们一起创办了一家公司，这一天，公司觅得了一名非常慷慨的投资人，为了庆祝这件事情，公司里开设了一场盛大的派对，在派对上，玩的兴起的安东尼和保罗决定打一个赌，赌注是公司百分之五十的股份。　　安东尼和保罗交出了身上所有的东西，两人回归到身无分文的状态，然后每一天，他们都可以在他们所拥有的东西里拿回一件，如此往复，看谁能够撑更长的时间，先放弃的人就是输家。

　　年轻的孕妇露丝逃脱了凶残的儿童邪教。在接下来的十年里，她匿名生活，试图使儿子免遭她小时候所经历的恐怖，但有邪恶跟着她，现在，她必须面对邪恶，或者失去孩子……

 Story follows an out-of-work steel worker as he struggles to provide for his family and avenge his brother's death by fighting in a mixed martial-arts match against a dangerous opponent.

　　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.