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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.

　　讲述了一个迷人而又变态的人和一个被他玩弄于股掌之间的女人之间扣人心弦的故事。

　　1993 年，发生了可怕的事件：一个神秘的儿童节目主持人克罗克特先生神奇地从电视机中出现，绑架了年幼的孩子杀害了其父母。而在克罗克特先生绑架了女主的儿子之后，女主开始了危险的追寻之旅，她要找到这个恶魔，救出她的儿子。

　　故事发生在1990年，美国一名汽车修理工约翰·格雷（大卫·丹席克 David Dencik 饰）因涉嫌猥亵自己的女儿安吉拉（艾玛·沃森 Emma Watson 饰）而遭到逮捕。负责调查此案的警官布鲁斯·肯纳（伊桑·霍克 Ethan Hawke 饰）对约翰展开问询，而在这一过程中约翰起先承认罪行，随后又突然失忆。为了应对这一突发状况，心理学教授肯尼斯·睿恩斯博士（大卫·休里斯 David Thewlis 饰）也介入调查之中。他们发现，约翰信奉崇拜魔鬼撒旦的黑宗教，甚至布鲁斯的搭档都有可能参与其中。布鲁斯和肯尼斯想方设法要打开嫌疑人和受害者的记忆闸门，让他们想起最不堪回首的一段往事……　　本片根据真实事件改编。