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　　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.

林宇与三名女孩遭遇空难，不幸流落至一座荒无人烟的孤岛，刚上岸便遭遇一头凶猛的变异双头蛇袭击。危急时刻，容貌靓丽、身手矫健的当地女土著颂雅及时出现，凭借对岛屿环境的熟悉，成功引开双头蛇，将四人救至一处隐蔽山洞。在艰难的孤岛求生中，林宇作为唯一的男性主动守护众人，朝夕相处间，他与四名女孩渐生情愫，陷入了两难的感情纠葛。好景不长，思瑶惨遭双头蛇伏击吞噬，若琳也不幸遇害。悲痛之下，林宇、婉晴与颂雅联手，借助颂雅祖辈流传的经验，摸清毒蛇怕强光和特定植物汁液的弱点，巧用简易工具设下陷阱，最终成功消灭双头蛇，林宇也找到情感的归宿。

警探本•卡森（Kiefer Sutherland 基弗•萨瑟兰 饰）因枪杀同事被迫从纽约警察局提前退休，他的婚姻也随之破裂。落魄的本暂住在妹妹安琪（Amy Smart 饰）的公寓里，终日借酒浇愁。一段时间沉沦过后，本重抖精神，找到了一份保安的工作。他所供职的五月花购物商场五年前曾被大火毁于一旦，令他倍感奇怪的是，在这座焦黑的建筑物中，那一面面镜子却格外明亮。　　数日后，本在商场的镜子上发现奇怪的手印，而次日亦在妹妹家的镜子上见到恐怖的景象。接下来的日子里，恐怖事件接连发生……