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主人公贤示自幼饱受性别认同困扰，却始终未放弃成为偶像的梦想。医生和田在与贤示相遇后，首次直面性别认同障碍的现实，并以贤示为首例亲自主刀的性别重置手术患者。一个选择活出自我，一个探索“真正的医疗”，两人在偏见与孤独中建立起深厚信任与羁绊。                                                                      　　本片改编自春菜爱与和田耕治的原著，讲述开启禁忌手术之门的真实故事。

 韩国首尔某个平凡的早上，广播电台Daily Topic节目的主持人尹英华（河正宇 饰）正就税率改革与听众进行连线，这时一个自称住在首尔昌信洞的普通工人朴鲁圭打入电话，大肆抱怨超高的电费和相关部门对他的威胁。尹英华颇不耐烦，以偏离主题为由强行切断电话。谁知连线无法单方面由电台方面中断，愤怒的朴鲁圭继续抱怨，并扬言炸掉汉江大桥。尹英华不以为然，进而怂恿对方想做就做，谁知话音刚落，窗外的麻浦大桥便炸作废墟。大惊失色的尹英华很快冷静下来，他决定利用这次难得的机会打一次事业的翻身仗。在他的主持下，针对恐怖分子的连线直播就此展开，无关良知的节目拉开帷幕……

即将临盆的李晴（李贝贝饰）被带往一处郊区别墅静心待产，却在看似周密的照护背后，落入一场精心布局的惊天阴谋。身边所有人都试图让她相信一个被构造的“真相”，精神压力与诡谲氛围不断侵蚀她的判断力，使她难以区分现实与幻觉。随着恐慌升级，她随身携带的DV成为突破迷局的重要线索，故事走向也随之产生翻转。

　　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.