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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.

 在爱人神秘信件的召唤下，詹姆斯（杰瑞米·艾文 饰）重新回到了充满着秘密和诡谲的寂静岭。但当他踏入这座小镇的那一刻却开始了无尽极限逃生模式：永不停歇的防空警报撕裂耳膜，漫天余烬笼罩大地，熟悉的街道扭曲成噬人的迷宫，三角屠夫、无脸血腥护士、未知诡异生物无处不在，步步紧逼。现实与幻象在寂静岭彻底崩塌，詹姆斯一边躲避致命追杀，一边试图用破碎的记忆拼凑出真相。

 奥吉（雅各布·特瑞布雷 Jacob Tremblay 饰）是一个10岁的男孩，除了头戴一个巨大的太空头盔外，他和其他的同年龄孩子别无二致。头盔下隐藏了奥吉因为各种手术而伤痕累累的脸庞，它不仅完美的隐藏起了奥吉脆弱自卑的内心，也成功的防止了奥吉的模样吓到别的孩子。奥吉没有上过学，他的所有文化知识都是母亲伊莎贝尔（朱莉娅·罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰）在家教授给他的。然而，伊莎贝尔渐渐感觉到，家庭课堂无法满足奥吉的成长需要，除了学习知识，奥吉还必须学会的，是如何同除了家人以外的人交流。在忧虑重重之中，伊莎贝尔将奥吉送入了一间公立学校里，在那里，奥吉面临的是他人生中必须要战胜的挑战。