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　　在一个舒适的季节，弗朗西斯科（艾邦·摩斯·贝克许 Ebon Moss-Bachrach 饰）和怀有身孕的妻子贝丝（凡妮莎·肖 Vinessa Shaw 饰）来到墨西哥某个海滨小镇度假。适值狂欢节期间，小镇四周歌舞升平，纸醉金迷，多少青年男女流连忘返。弗朗西斯科渴望寻觅一个安宁的所在，他找到当地的渔夫，从对方手中租下一艘船，打算在附近某个僻静的小岛安然度过五六天。次日，他和妻子抵达目的地。那里寂静无声，几乎看不到一个人影。岛上的孩子们偶尔逡巡四周，但无一例外脸上都挂着狰狞冷漠的表情。　　未过多久，令他们毛骨悚然的事情接连发生。岛上的孩子手执凶器猎杀成人，期间更发出令人不寒而栗的笑声。孩童的杀戮仍在继续，弗朗西斯科夫妇能否逃离……

　　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.

《伦敦地下城市》一个女记者被派遣到罗马尼亚首都布加勒斯特调查一个地下自杀邪教“死魂灵”。她很快就陷入了他们的黑暗世界，无法找到回头路，从而被迫加入他们，迎接一项极为恐怖的事情... ...