三大隊

　　三毛（賈林 Jia Lin 飾）從來就是銀幕上喜劇人物。這次，三毛從軍了。抗日戰爭全面爆發了，無所事事的三毛一心想著為國立功，加入了軍隊。不料，新兵訓練的時候就笑話百出。手榴彈實彈投擲訓練時，三毛一不小心就將手榴彈投到了戰壕里，搞得全軍上下一片烏黑。稀里糊涂的三毛隨后參加了一支敢死隊，笑話百出的他和隊友們竟一股全殲了敵軍。　　抗敵有功，三毛高升到后勤部，不用再上戰場了，卻成了師長姨太太的跟班。整天被使喚也鬧了不少笑話。不料兵敗師長自殺，三毛又重投兵營。一次執行空降任務時，三毛和以前的知心戰友遭到伏擊，大難不死卻落入深山。一等就等到了抗戰結束，三毛和戰友早已成了野人。

　　在一個異常炎熱的日子里，三個不同的家庭發現了一個奇怪的秘密——他們剛剛死去的親人又回來了。他們不知道該怎么辦——這些不是毫無意識的僵尸，而是完全不同的東西。但究竟是什么呢？

　　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.

　　朱淇（劉心悠 飾）一直以來都希望成為一名演員，然而，在娛樂圈摸爬滾打浸淫多年，始終缺少一點運氣的她卻依然只能在劇中混得一個跑龍套的小角色。一次偶然之中，電影公司的大老板杰夫（林德信 飾）看中了朱淇，欽點她做一部炒得十分紅火的賀歲片的女主角，朱淇興奮之余害怕自己已婚的身份會影響星途，于是決定隱瞞這一事實。　　朱淇的丈夫賴毛（周柏豪 飾）是一名娛樂記者，為了老婆的前途著想，他只能不情不愿的配合著朱淇的腳步。然而，隨著朱淇的走紅，賴毛發現自己和老婆之間的距離越來越遠，不禁心生疑慮，潛伏劇組之后方才發現朱淇和杰夫之間竟然有著撲朔不明的曖昧關系。