午后盛开的秘蜜花蕾

人到中年的车仔拥有一间网吧，但在手机游戏的冲击下，早已人气不再；三十未到的电竞选手邦少正在面对实力下滑的职业困境；单亲家庭长大的霏霏大学毕业超过五年，还未有过一份稳定工作。曾是动作巨星的八爷因为妻子阿兰出现脑退化，年过70的二人尝试利用电子游戏来锻炼大脑。一张全港电竞赛的征集海报，让想要拯救网吧的车仔决定组队。车仔、霏霏、八爷，三个新手再加上一个急于证明自己的邦少，Happy Hour电竞队正式成立。亲情、友情的羁绊化作电竞赛场的搏杀，一场不可能完成的战斗，让心怀梦想的他们不再抱憾。

 影片讲述了一个绝望浪漫者的愿望引发超自然诅咒的故事。Woe（迈克尔·约翰斯顿 饰）长期暗恋童年好友Nikki（印达·纳瓦雷特 饰），在一次表白失败后，他通过一件具有“猴爪”式超自然力量的 饰品许愿，希望Nikki能爱上他。但随着愿望成真，Nikki的行为逐渐变得异常，她的偏执和人格扭曲暗示其自主意识被某种恶意实体取代。

　　朱英秀（金明敏 饰）是一名律师，和妻子敏晶（朴珠美 饰）过着幸福的生活，两人共同养育着他们爱情的结晶慧琳（金素贤 饰），朱英秀相信正是因为有了主的庇护，他才能够过上如此美满的人生。然而，一场意外的发生彻底击碎了朱英秀的信念。　　绑匪绑架了年幼的慧琳，两人就此下落不明。起初，朱英秀和妻子都坚信慧琳一定能够平安归来，然而随着时间的推移，这份坚定逐渐粉碎为了尘埃。朱秀英甚至因为此时而对自己坚持一生的信仰产生了怀疑。一晃眼八年过去，一通意外的来电在这个支离破碎的家庭之内再度掀起波澜，慧琳还活着，而朱英秀唯一的信仰，就是找到她。

　　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.