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　　一分钟、一支麦克风、毫不留情。在奥斯汀举行的残酷演出中，托尼·欣奇克利夫及一众著名嘉宾对立志成为喜剧演员的参赛者进行考验。

制片徐蝦（李璨琛飾）及副導演張炳文（姜文傑飾）帶領拍攝團隊正在泰國進行《雌雄大盜》電影拍摄。誰料發生一連串意外及失誤令拍攝進度雪上加霜⋯⋯劇中當紅的男女主角在沒有完成戲份下便要收工，監製（田啟文飾）竟然毫不動氣，原來第二天已經挾款逃亡，只剩下一大筆債務。 就只有拍攝好的七成戲份，到底剩下配角詹記（詹昊宸飾）與劉連飄飄（曾美慧孜飾）及幾名劇組人員在沒有男女主角的情況下能否順利完成餘下的戲份嗎⋯⋯？

改编自柘植义春的漫画《海边的抒景》《混沌洞的笨先生》，讲述郁郁不得志的李编剧因缘际会来到一个大雪纷飞的深山中，误打误撞进入了一家破旧的旅馆。屋顶几乎被积雪压塌，旅馆的老板笨造看起来毫无干劲，旅馆里没有暖气，饭菜也马马虎虎，连床铺都得自己铺。然而，笨造似乎藏着什么秘密。某天晚上，笨造带着李踏入了夜晚雪原……

　　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.