猎艳

　　A filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story is real and release it as a work of his own, he loses himself and the film crew following him into his project.

2001年从庆尚北道永川移居大邱寿城区的庆焕是一名日本文化爱好者。这样的庆焕得知坐在自己旁边的班长在民也听日语歌曲，两人变得亲近起来。因为在民经常帮助难以适应寿城区环境的庆焕，所以两人总是形影不离。与此同时，庆焕听到了在民的秘密，庆焕也决定向在民说出自己的秘密。然而，在庆焕说出这个秘密后，在民开始对庆焕变得冷淡，他的学校朋友也开始排斥他。尽管如此，庆焕仍然想和在民做朋友。

　　莫兰（袁百梓卉 饰）拥有着一段悲惨的童年，很小的时候，她就失去了母亲，然而莫兰始终都不知道母亲究竟为什么会死，这场悲剧成为了莫兰内心里最大的谜团和黑洞。时间一年一年的就这样过去，一转眼莫兰便已经长成了亭亭玉立的少女，只是，她从未放弃过想要调查当年事件真相的额念头。　　尹正（林保怡 饰）是莫兰的师叔，在泰国经营着一家按摩院。莫兰千里迢迢远赴泰国寻找尹正，想要借助他的力量开始调查。哪知道来到泰国后，莫兰的身边开始接二连三的发生科学无法解释的诡异事件，甚至还发生了命案，而这一切都和母亲当年的死因有着千丝万缕的关联。

　　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.