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　　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？

本片是斯洛伐克导演卡塔琳娜·格拉玛托娃的长片首作，带有半自传色彩。15岁的少年埃诺和祖母在乌特奇卡的村子里过暑假，他喜欢摩托，无心学业，每天和村子里的男孩们混在一起。埃诺十分崇拜在外工作的母亲，内心希望能和她一起生活，但随着村子里流言四起，埃诺渐渐发现，母亲并不如想象中那样善良，而成长也总是伴随着痛苦和挣扎。

故事围绕墨西哥特种部队精英卡洛斯（绰号“公牛”）展开，他在一次任务中成功抓获了犯罪集团头目，却因此遭到报复，妻子在他面前被残忍杀害，自己也沦为通缉犯。走投无路之际，他意外中了彩票头奖，一夜之间拥有了复仇的资本。他与挚友、战友米格尔联手，将全部财富转化为武器和情报，从被通缉的逃犯，变成了以暴制暴的“复仇猎人”，目标是让所有参与杀害他妻子的人，付出最惨痛的代价。

　　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.