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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.

　　一项革命性的人类基因研究计划，为预防疾病与犯罪带来了莫大帮助，身为研究员的一份子，希欧多不但致力于生命的发展与延续，还有个能预知他人死亡的特殊能力。不过这次他的能力却阴错阳差害死了自己的女友安娜，内疚不已的希欧多以悲伤度日，直到一个月过去，安娜竟又活生生地出现在他面前？

　　一个被自己的父母抛弃的女孩的故事，14岁就离家出走的她，被当地的一个牧师收养了。后来她所遇到的人，会给她本来就很悲惨的命运带来怎样的影响呢？对于安吉拉·阿卜迪恩来讲，为了她，他宁愿牺牲自己也要与撒旦达成死亡契约，这样就可以让她灵魂永生，为了报仇，她先去吧那牧师的教堂烧成了焦土，而牧师因为喝多了而死在了教堂里。可是后来，她却在都市的灯红酒绿中染上了毒瘾和酒瘾，殊不知，她的脚已经迈入了地狱之门…从做了艳舞女郎到做妓女，发现毒瘾已让她无法自拔，甚至他觉得撒旦也抛弃了她。

　　孤独青年在住宅大楼自设昆虫馆，把各种昆虫和爬虫类视为宠物，蝎子蜈蚣爱不释手。新宠儿是一只外来蜘蛛，暂时给它一个安乐窝，只是掌上明蛛求生欲强，它要逃离禁室，不断繁衍。后代变种夺命巨蛛，大楼到处结满蛛网，居民陷入一片恐慌。基于公众安全理由，警方封锁现场所有出口，死里逃生更是难上加难。凡尼切克首部长片，直视无孔不入的致命威胁，触及社会的阶级歧视，勾起封城恐惧，善用特效与场景空间，拍出令人毛骨悚然血压狂飚的蛛杀危机。