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　　少女凯特（莱斯利-安妮·哈芙 Leslie-Anne Huff 饰）拥有一种神奇的能力，随便什么人，她只要看上一眼，便能知道他的死期为何时。一次偶然中，凯特遇见了名为杰森（Anthony Chaput 饰）的男子，凯特发现杰森拥有能够在死后和现世交流的能力，并且，杰森的死期就在几个小时之后。一直想要知道死后世界是什么模样的凯特摆脱杰森在死后同她联络，杰森兴然应允。　　果然，很快杰森便死了，在临死之时，一副诡异恐怖的画面出现在了杰森的眼前。之后，凯特果然接到了杰森来自“阴间”的电话，根据杰森的指使，凯特需要前往香港，在那里，一位名叫达伦（陈奕迅 饰）的酒保正在等她。

　　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.

　　1945年，第二次世界大战接近尾声，轴心国已成强弩之末，败局已定。许多战争中被俘虏的日本士兵经过改造后，陆续踏上回国的旅途，这其中便包括罗圈腿中村下等兵（潘长江 饰）。然而，即使在这垂死关头，帝国主义的贪婪仍旧没有收敛。轮椅太君（胡晓光 饰）伤愈出院，亲自负责指挥战舰阿多丸运送伤兵回国的重任，但是阿多丸还有一个秘密任务，那就是将从中国劫掠来的文物偷运出境。这个秘密被小刘（刘小微 饰）的父亲——一个文物老专家所得知，他掌握着所有文物的清单，也因此遭到日寇的追杀。临死之际，老教授将藏有清单的可乐瓶交给担任联络员的郭大叔（郭达 饰）。侦知到日本人的阴谋，八路军以及重庆方面的势力都行动起来。　　而在这一过程中，更大的阴谋也悄悄浮出水面……

　　Marcello Hernandez: American Boy. Only on Netflix January 7.