VN.044-寶寶兔寶寶

　　這部電影將六個故事組合成一個綜合系列，描繪了由于人類錯誤的欲望而發生的奇異事件。

 少年田勁的父母早年為了將西醫帶入藏地做出了無數的犧牲，由于無法適應高原的生活，田勁的媽媽帶著尚在襁褓中的兒子返回內地，爸爸拉格巴則在高原繼續著他的事業。數年過后，媽媽病故，無依無靠的田勁來到高原尋找爸爸，然而心中卻藏著無數的怨恨。拉格巴終日忙碌行醫，任憑兒子自行學習牧羊。某天，田勁遭到狗熊的威脅，幸虧一只金色的藏獒相助，后來更因種種機緣讓他與這只名叫多吉的藏獒成為最親密的朋友。與此同時，草原上出現了專門殘害生靈的惡魔，牧民的平靜生活被徹底打破……本片根據楊志軍的小說《藏獒》改編，由中日兩國聯合制作，日本著名漫畫家浦澤直樹還擔任了人設和導演的工作。

　　姐妹Nora和Agnes與疏遠的父親——魅力非凡的導演Gustav重聚。這位昔日名導試圖讓舞臺劇演員Nora參演自己寄予厚望的復出之作，卻遭女兒拒絕。Nora很快發現，父親已將她的角色轉給了一位野心勃勃的好萊塢新星。突如其來的變故迫使兩姐妹直面與父親的復雜糾葛，而這位美國明星的加入，更讓本就微妙的家庭關系陷入新的波瀾。

　　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.