监禁

　　东北小镇，白事先生张英豪和卖狐皮的王元顺意气相投。但背地里王元顺却与张英豪的媳妇李文红有染。李文红怀上了王元顺的孩子，王元顺决定杀死张英豪。然而他雇佣来的杀手竟屡屡失手。王元顺杀人不成反被杀手讹钱。无奈之下，他开始挑拨杀手们的关系……一年后，一具尸体惊现废井。警方确定王元顺有重大作案嫌疑。可王元顺却已离奇失踪，仿佛人间蒸发……

以下两位千禧一代将他们不拥有的纽约公寓卖给了不知道自己被骗的新买家。这个骗子干得很出色，直到他们遇到了一个公寓老板，他有一个黑暗的秘密，把这个游戏玩弄在他们身上。

　　不久前刚刚得知自己怀孕的艾玛（布丽特·摩根 Brit Morgan 饰），怀着异样复杂的心情随同尚不知情的男友麦克（希斯·戴维·米切尔 Seth David Mitchell 饰）来到一处位于雪山冰原之间的小镇度假。无垠旷野，万籁俱寂，看似一切都是那么浪漫美好，但是他们驾驶雪地摩托时遭遇事故，二人相互搀扶，勉强回到帐篷。在完全没有信号的深山腹地，麦克他们不仅要对抗严苛冰冷的自然环境，还要承受莫大的精神压力尽快修好雪橇摩托逃离此地。　　在此过程中，二人间爆发着争吵，而更大的危机正渐渐向他们逼近。直到某天，艾玛意外变成了这座山林中的孤身一人……

　　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.