VN.006 SiByl李思宁

　　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.

　　平静的一天，事业小有成就的中年男子杰米（费尔南多·卡约 Fernando Cayo 饰）和妻子玛尔塔（安娜·瓦格纳 Ana Wagener 饰）、女儿伊莎（曼纽拉·维拉斯 Manuela Vellés 饰）搬入了梦寐以求的大房子内。正当一家人争论晚上该不该一起度过时，三个蒙面歹徒闯入房中。为了保护家人的安全，杰米积极配合，抄下了信用卡号码并交出手机，并随同歹徒的首领外出取钱。他时刻寻找机会报警，却不知自己所面对的是根本不会妥协的冷血恶魔。另一方面，不断有访客扣响杰米家的房门，恐慌的玛尔塔母女则想尽一切办法逃脱，似乎又让一切变得更加糟糕。　　似无止境的长夜，愈加黑暗幽冷……

　　在网络监查科兼职的大学生俊赫，为了和生气的女友世熙（朴宝英 饰）重归于好，转而求助于女友的妹妹——高中女孩静美。静美是一个沉迷以来网络的时尚女孩，她答应帮助俊赫，条件是俊赫能帮她找一些网上封禁的稀奇古怪的视频。万般无奈，俊赫只得帮忙寻找，谁知却意外下载到一段诡异的视频。这段视频每次的文件名每次都会改变，每次打开后也会呈现不同的内容，甚至在看完之前都无法关闭。倒霉的静美似乎恰恰碰上了那个传说中的诅咒视频，在此之后，她的周围接连发生诡异事件。　　网络时代带来便利，也衍生了假象与罪恶，通往地狱的大门慢慢开启……

 麦克（布鲁斯·威利斯 饰）是著名儿童心理学家，却也有始终未能治愈的患者，甚至因此遭到枪击，这名少年随后也饮枪自毙。这给麦克带来很大心理阴影，一年后他找到另一个症状很像这名患者的男孩柯尔（海利·乔·奥斯蒙 饰），并耐心的做起了他的医生。柯尔并不容易接近，但麦克还是慢慢赢得 了他的信任，得知了柯尔的秘密。原来柯尔有着灵异的第六感，可以看到鬼魂。虽然这令人感到难以置信，但麦克在证实了事情的真相后还是帮助柯尔接受了这个事实。可是就在问题即将得到解决的时候，麦克却在柯尔的引导下，发现了一个更令人震惊的秘密……