野猫少女

　　女性摄影师莎拉（Alysson Paradis 饰）和马西欧（Jean-Baptiste Tabourin 饰）这对幸福的夫妻组成的小家庭即将迎来新的成员，但一场严重的车祸摧毁了他们美好的憧憬。马西欧在车祸中丧生，莎拉以及未出世的宝宝侥幸存活。　　圣诞之夜，孤独的莎拉待在家中，等待第二天早晨的生产。这时敲门声响起，一名黑衣女（Béatrice Dalle 饰）请求使用电话。莎拉本能地拒绝了她，谁知黑衣女竟千方百计想要闯进来。她的目的只有一个，抢夺莎拉那尚未出世的孩子。挡路者只有死路一条……

 玛西，一位年轻女子，被一个面目狰狞的怪物掳走，这个怪物一心要把她当作自己的孩子抚养长大。

本片以1978年开始发售就一直受到喜爱的点心“愉快动物饼干”为基础制作，讲述了以狮子为首，大象、河马、猴子、小兔、小猫、长颈鹿、鳄鱼、小鸡，以及新角色天马行空又哭又笑的故事，描写了只有“可爱”这一优点的他们，为了拯救世界灭亡的危机而奋斗的模样。

　　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.