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　　一次偶然中，布兰登（马修·麦康纳 Matthew McConaughey 饰）发现自己竟然拥有一项如此神奇的特异功能——他能够准确预测出每周末举行的橄榄球比赛的结果。这一能力彻底扭转了布兰登失意而又颓废的生活，同时也将他卷入了金钱和利益所构造的漩涡之中。　　沃特（阿尔·帕西诺 Al Pacino 饰）经营着一家体育顾问公司，布兰登的神奇能力在他的眼中无异于是一根点石成金的魔杖。野心勃勃的他找到了布兰登，千方百计的说服了后者加入了他的公司。从此，沃特的事业扶摇直上，布兰登也在沃特的身上找到了亲情和友情。但随着布兰登的能力的逐渐流逝，他和沃特之间的关系也开始了动摇。两人心中都有各自的想法，而最终的赢家只有一个。

 故事发生在遥远的2078年，矿业组织NEB在天狼星6B行星上发现了名为“Berynium”的元素，该元素蕴含着巨大的能量，可以用来充当能源使用。组织派遣了一批矿工前往行星进行能源开采，然而工人们很快就发现，Berynium拥有强烈的放射性，根本不适合使用。虽然矿工们强烈要求停止任务，但组织却不为所动，无奈之下，矿工们自发的组成了“联盟”，和组织之间开始漫长的对抗。为了抵挡组织的猛烈攻击，联盟研制出了小型机器人“Screamer”，它拥有敏捷的身手和强大的攻击力，给敌方造成了巨大的伤害。然而，联盟并不知道的是，在不知不觉间，机器人们已经进化出了自我意识，想要成为这颗星球上的主宰者。

讲述了独自抚养女儿的公务员国熙相信完美主义是在世界上生存的唯一出路，命运般地遇到弗拉门戈舞而展开的故事。

　　带薪休假的宝生家族千金小姐丽子（北川景子 饰），好不容易和管家影山（櫻井翔 饰）乘直升飞机赶上了开往新加坡的公主丽子号豪华游轮。她在船上意外见到上司——警视厅国立署警部风祭京一郎（椎名桔平 饰），原来风祭奉市长之命护送纯金打造的K狮前往狮城。豪华一流的配套服务，让游客们乐享其中。可就在燃放烟火的夜晚，一名男子的尸体落入海中，引起不小的恐慌。在此之后，风祭、丽子、影山联合起来展开调查，而犯罪分子也以全体船员的性命相要挟禁止与外界联系。　　接二连三有人遇害，时间则一分一秒地流逝，影山他们能否解开凶险的谜题？

　　It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies....

　　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.