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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.

离家十六年的陈家辉（陈坤 饰）在得知父亲陈为民（王劲松 饰）病危后，重返故乡。但父亲未留下只言片语便匆匆离世。葬礼之后，陈家辉与哥哥陈家兴（王砚辉 饰）、姐姐陈家媛（刘敏涛 饰）在整理父亲遗物时，逐渐察觉父亲身上似乎隐藏着许多不为人知的秘密。带着困惑与心结，陈家辉开始探寻父亲生前的生活轨迹，试图拼凑出父亲真实的模样。在这个过程中，一段埋藏了16年的家庭秘密逐渐被揭开，而这个秘密的核心，正是家辉与父亲之间一生都未能解开的那个结。

 艾德里安（马里奥·卡萨斯 Mario Casas 饰）经营着一间科技公司，事业蒸蒸日上，家中有美丽贤惠的妻子和活泼可爱的女儿，事业家庭双丰收的他是旁人羡慕的对象。然而，野心勃勃的艾德里安并未珍惜眼前来之不易的生活，一直以来，他和一位名叫劳拉（芭芭拉·蓝妮 Bárbara Lennie 饰）的女摄影师保持着肉体关系。某日幽会过后，两人驱车离开别墅，却在路上发生了车祸，为了掩盖事件的真相，两人决定将在车祸中死去的青年丹尼尔联同他的车一起沉入湖底。之后，劳拉遇见了一位善良的老人，老人将劳拉坏掉的车拉回家中修理，然而，令劳拉没有想到的是，这位老人，竟然就是丹尼尔的父亲。

　　堪萨斯的农民威廉（克林特·伊斯特伍德 Clint Eastwood ）年轻时曾是出名的杀手和劫匪，然而当遇上了克劳迪亚后，他的生活开始彻底改变。威廉和克劳迪亚结婚生子后，洗手不干，一家人过着幸福的生活。好景不长，克劳迪亚不久故去，威廉独立带着两个孩子过着清贫宁静的生活。　　这时，该地区发生了一起牛仔醉酒殴打妓女并将其毁容的恶性事件，坏蛋警长达格特（吉恩·哈克曼 Gene Hackman 饰）只将此事草草了结，凶手仍逍遥法外。当地妓女纷纷捐钱，要求悬红1000美金请杀手来伸张正义。“思科菲尔德小子”找到威廉，要求合伙干这票买卖。为了给孩子们一个幸福富足的家庭，威廉终于答应再次出山。