海岛惊艳

　　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.

　　一群朋友计划离开城市去海边度过一个轻松的周末，但事情发生了变化，一个年轻女子在一个偏僻岛屿的岸边向他们挥手求助。伸手救援便是致命的危险，他们不顾一切要逃离小岛。

　　影片讲述威震江湖的“冷血刀客”寒月刃（李炳渊 饰），因一饭之恩重返枹罕镇，而此时的枹罕镇正遭受强权恶霸的欺凌压迫，寒月刃决定出手相助，却惊觉人性中的软弱与恐惧远比暴力更加可怕。　　而他与曼陀罗（孙艺燃 饰）的纠缠如毒刃绞心，在心动与背叛间撕裂挣扎……

　　随着雨季的临近，人已埋、户已销的秦天（屈楚萧 饰）居然“重生”归来，给了老婆萧凡（王子文 饰）一个大大的惊喜，也给了周围人猝不及防的惊吓。面对这个记忆被清零，却年轻八岁拥有八块腹肌的“小奶狗”模样的秦天，萧凡决定先撩为敬。两人在日复一日的甜蜜互动中，曾经紧密相连的心也再度同频。这场奇迹似乎给了他们一次重新书写爱情的机会，倘若可以的话，真希望时间定格，雨不要停……