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　　西蒙（凱德·麥拉德 Kad Merad 飾）曾是一名非常有名的小提琴演奏家，對這項樂器充滿了熱情與喜愛，可是如今，他卻現身巴黎的一所初中之中，成為了那里的一群六年級孩子們的小提琴老師。西蒙對待音樂的態度非常的嚴肅，他自己的個性也十分不茍言笑，因此無法和班上的孩子們打成一片，孩子們在調皮搗蛋的同時也非常懼怕這位老師?！　“⒅Z（艾爾弗雷德·雷利 Alfred Renely 飾）是一個非常害羞的男孩，和班上的其他孩子不同，他對待小提琴有著和西蒙一樣的熱愛。阿諾的憧憬漸漸點燃了西蒙內心里快要熄滅的火焰，在阿諾的影響下，西蒙找到了人生新的方向。

　　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.

　　在一個遙遠的星球上，一艘墜毀的宇宙飛船上的后代受到了神秘力量的影響，這些力量使他們在短短8天內衰老并死亡。他們還必須住在洞穴里以躲避夜間的嚴寒和白天的酷熱。一個小男孩決心要回到把他們帶到那里的那艘船上。但他將如何在剩下的短短時間內完成這一切呢

　　少女幸子（宮崎葵飾）和老師的師生戀緋聞被傳得風風雨雨，相依為命的母親稔子（Ryo飾）則自殺未遂。打擊不斷的生活令幸子無法承受，升入中學后，她不去上學，每天閑逛打發時間。她和依靠小偷小摸賺錢的少年隆夫、精神脆弱的中年人久蔵成為了朋友。隆夫離開后，幸子和好友夏子（蒼井優飾）返回了學校?！　〔痪煤?，她又差點被母親的新歡德川強暴。謠言又起，幸子失望地離開學校。昔日的老師戀人現在發電所工作，幸子準備去他那里。然而在約定的小茶店里等了很久，他還是沒有出現?；倚牡男易痈粋€前來搭訕的男子離開茶店……