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　　在报馆任职的骠叔（董骠 饰）因为工作的关系带着全家到加拿大工作。一家五口都全身心投入新环境新生活中，骠叔却因得罪上司被解雇了。由于大女儿、二女儿（李丽珍 饰）已开始了学业，他唯有带着妻子骠婶（沈殿霞 饰）与最小的女儿回到香港继续生活，生活却比以前更艰难了。骠婶无意中发现了一张加拿大的头奖彩票，奖金是两千万加币。　　由于不够钱到加国，骠叔硬着头皮向旧上司借。同样受到经济危机的上司设法要夺取骠叔的彩票。骠叔一家顽强对抗，保住了彩票，却无法在领奖时限截止前赶到。　　一家人伤心流泪，悲伤之中发现时间上出现了时差，领奖的时间还没截止。

　　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.

　　THE CONFINES is a claustrophobic thriller that follows a troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to not let her mind play tricks on her while she patrols the empty halls. But as the night progresses strange things begin to happen - and she realizes it may not all be in her head.

　　姚芊芊腹中的孩子即将足月，为了让大家相信孩子是太子的，郑贵妃命她带兰心去郊外寺庙进香，自己则安排手下装作歹徒袭击二人，让姚芊芊有理由“受惊早产”，并想伺机除掉兰心。谁知，姚芊芊真的受惊动了胎气，幸有兰心全力相助，这才九死一生，在途中产下一子。从此，姚芊芊视兰心为生死之交，王恭妃见状，却误以为兰心被郑贵妃收买。王恭妃明白梅儿和兰心情同手足，为防止梅儿随兰心一同倒戈，她开始用各种方式离间两人的关系 。　　梅儿原是上官大人与歌女李月棠之女，实为兰心之妹。