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　　李·佩斯出演美国传奇汽车公司德劳瑞恩的创始人——天才汽车设计师约翰·德劳瑞恩，影片设定在1980年代，德劳瑞恩创建还没几年，正在崛起，聚焦约翰和苏戴奇斯饰演的Jim Hoffman的关系。Hoffman看似有趣迷人，其实他是一名前诈骗犯，现在为FBI工作，他来约翰这里当卧底，想要控告其贩毒。两人建立的一段有趣的bromance也很快急转直下，行差踏错。

　　一位陷入哀痛的女子，前往偏远的森林深处，希望在那找到慰藉。却遇到了一位陌生人向她注射了一种麻痹剂。随着麻痹剂逐渐侵蚀她的身体，她必须在全身神经系统完全瘫痪前逃跑、躲藏并为生存而战。

　　43岁的社畜大叔黄遇奇（贾冰 饰）身体处处亮红灯，是生活中的背景板，职场上的一块砖。被人生困住的他因一场意外与18岁的自己互换灵魂！从此，没有“班味”的中年黄遇奇开启了创飞人生的一系列操作！不做卷王，享受人生就对了！“少年老成”的18岁黄遇奇（王皓 饰）手握未来剧本，开始实行“富二代养成计划”！不再叛逆，弥补遗憾就对了！横冲直撞的他们会如何掌控自己的全新人生？

　　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.