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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.

　　孤独青年在住宅大楼自设昆虫馆，把各种昆虫和爬虫类视为宠物，蝎子蜈蚣爱不释手。新宠儿是一只外来蜘蛛，暂时给它一个安乐窝，只是掌上明蛛求生欲强，它要逃离禁室，不断繁衍。后代变种夺命巨蛛，大楼到处结满蛛网，居民陷入一片恐慌。基于公众安全理由，警方封锁现场所有出口，死里逃生更是难上加难。凡尼切克首部长片，直视无孔不入的致命威胁，触及社会的阶级歧视，勾起封城恐惧，善用特效与场景空间，拍出令人毛骨悚然血压狂飚的蛛杀危机。

打破白娘子传说的固有框架，以许仕林后人许博森的现代视角切入，将千年神话与当代青年的成长、抉择结合，把 “救母” 而非 “爱情” 作为核心主线，赋予经典故事全新的情感内核与现实思考。

小洲总是背着父亲薛大队长在学校调皮捣蛋，这次跟死党小马与胖雄又闯祸了，训导主任牛头于是一状告到薛大队长那里。父亲将小洲痛责，更在他书包里搜出小马的香烟，为此又将小洲严惩。小洲含冤受屈后愤而出走，心中更暗盼父亲可以从这个家消失；没想到当晚从对岸发射的两颗导弹竟令小洲如愿，薛大队长必须离家往前线去。父亲不在家，小洲与小马、胖雄的行动更肆无忌惮，却因此而惹上学校的小霸王大毛。小洲为对抗大毛，求助于国宅帮的少年头头A 司；A 司答应帮忙，却要三人付保护费。 　　三人夹在大毛与 A 司之间，饱受两方威胁。这时台湾面临战争边缘，股票大跌，总统直选在即，民间吹起移民潮。1996 年的南方时光，纷扰躁动，回想起来令人惘然。