情事：我朋友的爱人

Az 在 Sète（法国南部）的一个牡蛎养殖场工作，他非常熟悉牡蛎，曾打开过成百上千个，一天，他决定藏一枚戒指在其中一只牡蛎中，向他的女友 Jess 求婚，但是对方没有答应。不过幸运的是，他的一群朋友已经准备好帮他重新振作起来。                                                                      　　Az travaille chez un ostréiculteur à Sète. Les huîtres il connaît ça par cœur, il les ouvre par centaines. Dans l’une d’elle, Az décide de cacher une bague, pour demander sa petite amie Jess en mariage. Elle ne dit pas oui. Heureusement, sa bande d’amis est prête à tout pour l’aider à sortir la tête de l’eau.

　　月黑风高，古宅之夜，白衣鬼魅诛杀满桌男女老幼，尖叫连连，血流满地，惨不忍睹！是死去怨灵的还魂复仇？还是来自人间的情感纠葛？故人重返古宅，诡异事件频发，魅影时而飘过古宅郎亭角落，令人胆战心惊！

在这片充满剑和魔法的土地上，土匪们为了保护一个小女孩而脱离了他们的帮派，让他们与曾经像他们父亲一样的老朋友和前领导人对抗。

　　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.