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1840年鸦片战争爆发，英军侵略军攻破广州，饱经鸦片毒害的百姓活在至暗时刻。萧岗士绅何玉成（严屹宽饰）受关天培之托嘱，立志寻找时机保卫广州城。 故事从三元里村武馆教头刘三义（刘秋实饰）和其兄弟韦绍光（孙昊饰）企图烧毁十三行码头的洋商趸船开始... 影片质朴还原了三元里抗英这段鲜为人知的史实，用悲壮美学与历史质感交织的视听讲述了鸦片馆血案的个人复仇，到牛栏岗生死战的民族抗争。致敬民族先辈，当外侮侵犯时，每一个挺身而出的小人物，都是照亮民族暗夜的英雄。

　　Ryan O'Neil是一位在战斗中受伤后患有PTSD的退伍军人，他怀孕的妻子斯蒂芬妮回到家中。她的哥哥托尼是一个腐败的警察，她的丈夫一直在为这个国家服务，她一直在帮她。瑞恩和托尼从来都不喜欢对方，而托尼试图干涉他们的婚姻，事情变得激烈起来。但是，当瑞恩在夜晚开始在他的房子里闪现出杀手，外星人和其他奇怪生物的闪光和幻影时，他不确定这是真的还是只在他脑海中。斯蒂芬妮已经和瑞恩在一起，对丈夫的行为深表担忧。随着岁月的流逝，瑞恩很快就会发现他的噩梦在他身上萦绕着什么邪恶的存在。

 《掸武门》是1983年上映的台湾电影，由张鹏翼导演。张玲，郑少秋，王侠等人主演。《掸武门》讲述某朝皇帝在正月十五日比武大赛之前， 得知刑部大臣陆人敌欲乘机谋反， 乃飞鹰传书其派驻在东， 南， 西， 北四郡的诸侯回朝护驾， 然四人均於回朝途中为刺客所暗杀， 南郡主之女孤独冷雁於其父被刺後始得报， 火速赶回想为父报仇· 一日孤独冷雁巧遇鬼红娘， 才知两人同出一个师门， 尤其孤独冷雁学得高深之禅功， 身手快捷， 眼力极强， 却可惜他·.....

　　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.