Sarpseir

　　In the near future, drugs and crime have risen 500%. A disintegrating police force is unable to deal with this horrifying problem...

　　困于七年前一桩意外的两人再度相遇，美云（辛芷蕾 饰）与葆树（张颂文 饰）开始了一段爱恨交织、扭曲而痛苦的共生关系。在美云试图借其峰（冯绍峰 饰）展望新的未来时，却发现自己仍深陷旧日漩涡。那些关于情与债的执念，再度将所有人推向命运的十字路口……

　　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.

　　20年前，社会主义国家南斯拉夫解体，奉行主义的更迭并未改变东欧这片多灾多难土地的命运。战火持续，人民罹难。时至今日，硝烟仍未从这里散去。卡萝尔（祖儿·费利克斯 Zoé Félix 饰）、马提亚（埃瑞克·萨文 Eric Savin 饰）、萨米尔（Arié Elmaleh 饰）是来自法国的救援小组成员。在完成任务后，他们驱车返回祖国。然而必经之路上有士兵把守，为了不浪费时间，萨米尔建议抄小路前进。这一决定将他们引入一条黑暗之途，行至半路，三人被一群全副武装的不明身份者绑架。在此后的数日内，他们全被关在不见天日的笼子里。　　对于对方的动机卡萝尔他们全然不知，只有无尽的恐惧伴随左右，而死神的脚步也在慢慢逼近……