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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.

在一場世紀大地震后，矗立于海中央的“重力墻”將世界一分為二，形成兩個不同的時區(qū)和重力環(huán)境，“優(yōu)日區(qū)”的一天，是“長年區(qū)”的一年。長年區(qū)長大的薯仔（許光漢 飾）對來自優(yōu)日區(qū)的實習醫(yī)生安晴（袁澧林 飾）一見鐘情，面對時間和地理的巨大阻礙，薯仔和安晴用盡全力雙向奔赴，以年思念，以日相見。在失衡的時空里，他們能否堅定地愛到最后，守護這場刻骨銘心的愛戀？

　　一項革命性的人類基因研究計劃，為預(yù)防疾病與犯罪帶來了莫大幫助，身為研究員的一份子，希歐多不但致力于生命的發(fā)展與延續(xù)，還有個能預(yù)知他人死亡的特殊能力。不過這次他的能力卻陰錯陽差害死了自己的女友安娜，內(nèi)疚不已的希歐多以悲傷度日，直到一個月過去，安娜竟又活生生地出現(xiàn)在他面前？

　　亞歷克斯失敗后過去了73年，人類也失去了半機械人的戰(zhàn)爭。從那時起，人類就被奴役了?？茖W(xué)家們已經(jīng)開發(fā)出一種新的DNA毒株，這可能標志著Cyborgs的終結(jié)，并將其注射到志愿者身上。當生化機器人了解到這個女人和嬰兒時，他們都要終止。為了逃跑，她帶著一艘偷來的半機械人的船，在1980年回到了東非，在那里，母親被殺，但孩子得救了。這需要20年的時間，但半人半人的獵人星云最終找到了這個名叫亞歷克斯的女孩，并及時趕回來終結(jié)她的生命。