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　　熙攘喧嚣的大都会东京，游魂漫无目的地行走在城市的每一个角落。身穿校服的女高中生树里（土屋太凤 饰）曾经将自己深锁屋中，拒不登校，后来则选择从公寓楼顶一跃而下，结束了自己十几年匆匆的人生。此去经年，她早已忘记当初自杀的理由，甚至有时忽略了已经死去的事实。细细回想生前事，曾有交到的倾心好友，也曾有运动出色的青梅竹马，而如今俱成过眼云烟。曾经讨厌嘈杂低端的她，现在反而喜欢身处其中。树里仿佛是城市中唯一一个亡灵，没有任何说话对象，除了那些怂恿失落的人自杀的虫男。　　这是她的孤独地狱，没有止境的旅程……

　　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.

新人法官高远寺圆（芳根京子饰）每日忙于庭审中的证人询问、审阅证据与鉴定报告、检索判例以及撰写判决书等工作。某日，圆被委以重任，负责测试性引入法院的AI系统“法神”。当输入过往审判数据后，“法神”瞬间生成的判决书与法官苦心撰写的文书毫无二致，判决结果也完全一致。法官们为工作效率的飞跃提升欣喜不已，唯独圆对“法神”始终心存警惕。 　　圆与临近退休的法官桧叶共同负责一宗18岁少年刺杀生父的案件。作为审判长的桧叶在开庭前将数据输入“法神”进行判决模拟，AI瞬间给出的判决是“死刑”。 　　对AI能力深感兴趣的桧叶。对AI愈发警惕的圆。当陪审员们也卷入其中时，人们再度直面探寻真相的艰难困境。究竟谁能辨明真相？是AI？是人类？还是・・・ 　　这部社会派娱乐作品直面当下以惊人速度渗透社会的AI技术，深刻叩问使用AI的人类应有的姿态！