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　　曾经名噪一时的女明星罗宾·怀特（罗宾·怀特 Robin Wright 饰）早已过气，45岁的她因为执拗和任性毁掉的很多机会，也让公司老板杰夫（丹尼·赫斯顿 Danny Huston 饰）渐渐失去了耐心。杰夫逼迫她签下演员生涯最后一份合约，从此罗宾的名字和三维扫描后的虚拟 形象只能出现在公司的展示墙上和数字时代的电影中。罗宾起初极度抵制，但在经纪人艾尔（哈威·凯特尔 Harvey Keitel 饰）的竭力劝说下，同时考虑到儿子亚伦（柯蒂·斯密特-麦菲 Kodi Smit-McPhee 饰）的状况，这个倔强的女人选择妥协。20年后，罗宾驱车前往亚伯拉荷马参加未来学大会，而那里是一个全动画封锁区。以动画形象示人的罗宾将经历一次难忘的旅程……　　本片根据波兰科幻、哲学、未来学作家斯坦尼斯拉夫·莱姆的短篇小说改编。

　　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.

　　某座住宅区，负责公寓内各项维修事务的菲恩（Matt O'Leary 饰）和约瑟（George Finn 饰）是一对穷的叮当响的好基友。某天菲恩的女友凯莉（Danielle Panabaker 饰）来到他们的住处，当得知住在隔壁的贝先生已经很长时间没走出房门时，凯莉自告奋勇上门查看，结果却一脸错愕地回到二人面前。原来贝先生早已不见踪影，房间内一面墙贴满了以三个人为对象的拍立得照片，窗口则有一台奇怪的机器正对着菲恩和约瑟的房间。不久后他们发现，那台机器竟是可以拍摄到未来情景的照相机。他们发现了贝先生的尸体，然而因为照相机的原因秘藏了此事。　　无意间拥有了窥视未来的手段，年轻人们的心不知不觉躁动起来……

　　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。