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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.

　　某個晴朗假日，美國青年尼克（Jay Gillespie 飾）和好友史蒂文（Nick Eversman 飾）驅車穿越國境線，打算前往墨西哥的提華納尋找一次絕佳的艷遇。他們很快便鎖定了一個性感尤物，但是突如其來的意外讓二人的狂歡設想灰飛煙滅。正當他們垂頭喪氣之際，某當地人送給二人一個精致的魔方。尼克和史蒂文的命運就此改寫，他們也有如人間蒸發一般消失?！　∧峥撕褪返傥牡氖й櫧o各自家人莫大的打擊，在一次家庭聚會中，艾瑪（Tracey Fairaway 飾）從兩人的行李中找到了那枚魔方，而渾身是血的史蒂文也突然出現在房間內。家人們對此感到驚奇喜悅，卻不知道丁頭鬼的魔爪正慢慢伸向他們……

　　心理學專業學生安吉拉（Amaia Salamanca 飾）分外擔心她的期末學分，在教授的建議下，這個一向不相信超自然的女孩決定去探訪一座早已廢棄的礦區小鎮Susurro，那里曾經有一個嗜血如命的馬特加醫生，傳說他的惡靈至今還在小鎮上游蕩，殘害偶然闖入的人們。為了證明馬特加醫生的傳說子虛烏有，也為了順利通過考試，安吉拉和她具有較強第六感的妹妹戴安娜（Alba Ribas 飾）以及同學喬西（Maxi Iglesias 飾）、托尼（óscar Sinela 飾）、貝蘭（úrsula Corberó 飾）、卡羅斯（Lucho Fernández 飾）驅車前往那個荒涼陰森的邊遠小鎮。　　借助精密儀器和戴安娜的配合，他們似乎真的將馬特加醫生喚回了人間，而死神也一步步向他們靠近……

一位心碎的東德女服務員和一位手臂受傷的伊朗YouTuber在山中的鬼魂搜尋之旅中尋找孤獨的慰藉。這是一場關于不太可能的友誼以及對另一種生活的渴望的浪漫冒險。