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　　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.

　　南、欧、尼克、窦和梅是五个刚毕业没多久的新新人类，出于对影视行业和灵异题材的热爱，他们拍摄了一支闹鬼废墟的小短片。虽然没有获得相关公司的认可，但一经上传后很快得到网友的广泛关注和支持。在此之后，专门拍摄灵异题材的制作公司鬼域（Ghost Land）联系到他们，邀请三个人前往端岛拍摄。端岛是位于日本长崎一座形状酷似军舰的岛屿，19世纪末曾凭借丰富的矿藏赢得某大型企业的关注，但是随着能源方式的改编如今已变成遍布废墟的荒岛。　　无所顾忌的年轻人们登上端岛，期间还遭遇传说中的美女美子的鬼魂，他们就此厄运缠身……

几个年轻时怀揣街舞梦想的青年，多年后经历了人去人走、世故变迁，怀着对朋友的怀念，怀着对未来的憧憬，又重拾了自己年轻时的梦想，用舞蹈诠释了人生态度……

　　黑心鬼（午马 饰）原是百年前的善长人翁，好事做尽，却令田地善恶不平衡，故被罚在阳间害九名贪心之人后方可投胎；陈康泰（陈友 饰）误放出尿壶中的黑心鬼，被赠予三个愿望，试验其是否贪心之人。康泰之弟星辰（莫少聪 饰）替兄顶罪而被解雇，寄居兄长家中，被恶嫂梅赛花（梅艳芳 饰）逼做男佣，因而邂逅女鬼梅兰花（梅艳芳 饰），另一方面，黑心鬼限期将至，决定完成康泰最后愿望后便取其性命，康泰能否度过此劫……