雙面媚娘

　　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.

　　美國德州一所高中，以布萊德利（賈斯廷·阿諾德 Justin Arnold 飾）為首的一眾男女學(xué)生風(fēng)生水起，橫行霸道，經(jīng)常以欺負(fù)人為樂趣。印度裔學(xué)生萊比（Vincent Silochan 飾）、瘦小的戴恩（馬克·多納托 Marc Donato 飾）和有些內(nèi)向自閉的女孩艾米莉（林德賽·西德爾 Lindsay Seidel 飾）等人更是他們優(yōu)先欺負(fù)的對(duì)象。學(xué)校的狀況已然如此，與親人的關(guān)系又分外冷淡和緊張，戴恩他們的生活看不到一點(diǎn)兒希望。　　8個(gè)月前，戴恩的叔叔去世，留給他一座偌大的農(nóng)場作遺產(chǎn)。飽受欺負(fù)且試圖自殺的他找到和自己同病相憐的幾個(gè)人，他們決定把學(xué)校的小霸王們請(qǐng)到舉行派對(duì)，在勁歌熱舞之中展開準(zhǔn)備已久的血腥復(fù)仇……

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