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　　A rogue police detective in search of his parents killer is murdered and reborn the ultimate killer.

　　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.

　　小青年湯姆（伊恩·德·卡斯泰克 Iain De Caestecker 飾）致電有過一面之緣的女孩露西（愛麗絲·恩格勒特 Alice Englert 飾），邀請對方參加即將在愛爾蘭舉行的音樂節。湯姆處心積慮規劃行程，比音樂節預定提前一天到達目的地。他約女孩去網上預訂的基拉尼旅店留宿。筆直的公路無限延伸至遠方，四周但見無垠曠野，陰冷荒涼，幾乎看不到一個人影。汽車在無聊和枯燥中行駛，天色慢慢暗了下來，而他們卻迷失方向，始終找不到目的地。隨著暮色降臨，恐慌在彼此心底升起，他們在迷宮一般的叢林里失去方向，曾經輕浮曖昧的笑容不在。　　在漆黑曠野，一名滿臉是血的男子突然出現在湯姆和露西面前。原本設想中美好的約會，注定變成萬劫不復的噩夢……

影片以一年四季為時間軸，講述一個冰島家庭在父母分居期間的生活。女主人公安娜是位視覺藝術家，剛失去工作室的她開始在戶外創作。她的丈夫馬格努斯是名漁夫，常年在海上作業，卻拒絕接受婚姻已走到盡頭的事實，不斷回到曾經的家中。