青春期叛逆的骚动

　　家声（林子祥 饰）已经四十六岁了，至今仍未成家。他青梅竹马女友丽泉（伍咏薇 饰），要求与他之间做个了断。两人多年来没有结果是因为家声是一名同性恋者。而家声是有一名男朋友Sonny（陈小春 饰）的，但Sonny十分享受花花世界给他带来的虚荣，这样便使得家声觉得十分没有安全感，却又对Sonny的感情越来越深。　　家声一名同性恋好友永烈因艾滋病死去了，家声劝止永烈的男友（吴镇宇 饰）不要出现在丧礼上，却被Sonny从中捣乱，家声也因此与Sonny分手了。　　但家声复杂的感情世界并没有因为这样得到解决……

　　在某临近海滨的医院内，住着一个无依无靠的中年男子金珉昊（千浩振 饰）。由于左半边身体失去知觉，加上脑神经受损，因此他无时无刻不想了结这苦难的人生。这一日，医院送来了另一位没有任何亲眷的病号，他的名字叫做朴尚桦（刘海镇 饰），因脑部受损而失去了记忆，与金安排在同一个加护病房。朴的到来，激起金珉昊心中无限的波澜。这两个男人似乎曾有着无限的仇恨与瓜葛，致令金想尽各种办法要置其于死地，而渐渐恢复记忆的朴也将同样的仇恨倾泻于金珉昊。　　与此同时，神秘的白医生一反常态对两个男人进行特殊关护，并且用匪夷所思的治疗方法帮助他们恢复健康。这一切的背后，似乎隐藏着更大的谜团……

　　堅持到底的瘋狂執著者、活力爆棚的樂天派、顏值爆表的潮流DJ志願生、腦洞大開的怪咖，還有直率爆笑的傻大姐——這五位從小一起長大的死黨，雖然個性南轅北轍，但卻默契滿點。在友情屆滿24週年的同時，他們終於迎來夢寐以求的「人生首次海外旅行」！只是沒想到，這場說走就走的旅程，卻秒變災難現場：走失、誤會、鬧劇不斷升級，他們能否克服重重危機，重新找回彼此？而這場瘋狂之旅的終點，會是一生中的難忘回憶，還是友情的轉捩點呢？

　　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.