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　　某年圣誕節期間，位于一個僻靜舒適角落的格蘭達爾森林旅館正式開業。美麗的女店主阿哈娜（碧帕莎·芭素 Bipasha Basu 飾）為了這一天可謂煞費苦心，她以一己之力安排旅館內的一切事務，與此同時第一批客人也接二連三入住。雖然狀況不斷，不過旅館的開業儀式總算順利進行了下來，而且她還因誤會結識了擁有迷人氣質的客人庫納爾·阿南德（Imran Abbas 飾）。然而在前一晚，給旅店送貨的司機遭到不明生物的襲擊，死狀可怖。次日，一對新婚燕爾的夫妻也在叢林中遇襲?！　】植赖乃劳鰵夥昭杆俾樱⒐群貌蝗菀捉⑵饋淼膲粝肼灭^，面臨怪物的無情毀滅……

　　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.

 婚禮前幾天，一對情侶無意中發現彼此的秘密，親密關系面臨考驗，令結婚計劃驟然生變。暗黑秘密如何一發不可收拾？各種反應又引致怎樣翻天覆地的后果？原定又浪漫又幸福的結婚計劃，還可以進行嗎？

　　A doctor works to cure patients suffering from crippling phobias by placing them inside his invention which induces and controls hallucinations.