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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.

　　金领孟夏貌美强悍，精明神勇，却因未婚夫出轨而崩溃；SPA技师汤玲柔弱呆萌，娇甜黏人，一再对吃软饭的男友无力自拔。一场葬礼让两个被同一个男人伤害的隐秘情敌变成了磕磕绊绊的塑料花，日常斗嘴吐槽，情谊却不断升级。年轻阳光摄影师金哲的出现撩拨得二女春心萌动，同时陷入疯狂的境地。几番争斗下来，男神岿然无动。两女身心俱疲，感受到作为女人的无奈与悲凉，同时从这段荒唐的雌竞中幡然醒悟，对爱情和女性的尊严、价值生发出全新的体悟。金哲究竟情嘱何方？两个大龄女最终爱归何处？假闺蜜如何炼就真友谊？

　　尼古拉斯·凯奇出演独立制作惊悚片《窥镜》(Looking Glass，暂译)。导演为曾拍摄多部MV及广告的多里·奥斯科维兹，编剧杰里·莱普、马修·怀尔德。一对夫妇在经历生活伤痛后买下了荒郊僻壤一处汽车旅馆，他们此举是为了探秘旅馆一个房间内发生的一系列无法解释的怪事。影片今秋开机。

　　An 80-year-old man with a penchant for real life games in a story about rights and wrongs. It's a story about the decisions one makes in their lifetime and the fact that every decision has its repercussions, hearing and judgment.