VN.039-萌琪琪Irene

　　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.

　　前伞兵军官朱里安•塔维尼（Maurice Ronet 饰）退役后在一家军火公司上班，期间他和老板西蒙•卡瑞拉（Jean Wall 饰）的妻子弗洛伦丝（Jeanne Moreau 饰）陷入热恋。为了扫清障碍，他和情妇制定了一条看似天衣无缝的谋杀计划。计划起初进展顺利，但在刺杀之后却因细微的差错偏离当初的设想，朱里安更被困在大楼的电梯之中。　　所谓祸不单行，一对青年男女偷走了朱里安的车，事态开始朝着混乱的方向发展……　　本片为左岸派元老路易•马勒的长片处女作，荣获1957年路易•德吕克奖

　　我叫夏津生，做水产生意，45岁那年我儿子跳楼自杀了，他死后第37天我进了他所有的群，我发现里面全都是有抑郁倾向企图轻生的孩子，我不知道为什么，我在“约死群”留言1万9千次，问过127个男孩，49个女孩，到现在也没有答案……

　　格里戈（米洛斯·比柯维奇 Milos Bikovic 饰）是衔着金汤匙出生的千金大少爷，从小就过着娇生惯养、养尊处优的日子，在蜜糖罐里泡大的格里戈自然培养出了蛮横娇纵不学无术的摆烂个性，并且因为他的横行霸道，惹出了种种的麻烦要他老爸给他擦屁股。终于，在又一次闯祸之后，格里戈的老爸忍无可忍，他决定好好的教育一下自己的儿子。　　格里戈的老爸和他的好友——一位精神病学家一起盘下了一座废弃多年的村庄，将它重新修整成为了19世纪的模样，之后，两人策划了一场车祸，当格里戈从昏迷中醒来后，震惊的发现自己“穿越”回了19世纪，成为了当时的一位有钱人家的奴隶。