Kulong

　　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.

 【故事简介】利翁兹·奥马克与天人的战斗以真正的改革者刹那·F·清英等人的胜利拉上了帷幕。独立治安维和部队A-Laws解体，世界终于走向了和平。这样过了两年，西历2314年，表面上消失了的天人为了防止战争发生仍然在暗处活动着，这时，新的战争打响了信号。再次集结起来的高达驾驶员们乘坐着新式高达，开始了战斗！【STAFF】企画：sunrise原作：矢立肇、富野由悠季脚本：黑田洋介人设原案：高河弓动画人设：千叶道德机体设定： 海老川兼武、柳濑敬之、福地仁、鹫尾直广、寺冈贤司、中谷诚一、大河原邦男动画机体设定： 中谷诚一美术设定：须江信人（KUSANAGI）美术监督：若松荣司（KUSANAGI）色彩设计：手岛明美（Wish）音响监督：三间雅文摄影监督：葛山刚士（旭Production）旁白：古谷彻制作人：池谷浩臣（sunrise）、佐々木新（sunrise）监督：水岛精二制作：创通、sunrise

　　八个感化院的青年在两名警官的监督下，前往乡间一所破败的客栈中接受社区服务，但是他们的到来却无意中惊醒一个沉寂已久的恶魔。雅克布•古德奈特 饰（Glen Jacobs 格兰“凯恩”雅克布 饰），身高七英尺，体重四百磅，头骨里嵌着一个生锈的铁盘，锋利的指甲足够戳穿对手眼睛的精神病患者。　　雅克布四年前曾被警官弗兰克•威廉姆斯（Steven Vidler 饰）枪击头部，却侥幸逃生。如今弗兰克正是这群青年的督导员。弗兰克和孩子们的出现激起了雅克布屠杀的欲望，他举起巨斧，将客栈变作血腥的屠宰场……

　　In the futuristic city of Vanille, with properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes & Ears the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a father and his young son threatens to disintegrate when the father's device begins to fail. Desperate to avoid facing his own traumatic reality, the man must venture outside to find a replacement, into a city where violence and danger lurk beneath a skim of beautiful illusion.