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　　A young mad genius attempts to 'hack the human mind' in order to fix humanity.

　　1978年，死亡峡谷。警官戴维•麦克阿里斯特（David Stanbra 饰）将杀人如麻、残酷血腥的雾人（Ben Gunther 饰）绳之于法，这个作恶多端的噩梦最终死在毒气室里。　　时间回到现在，警长麦克阿里斯特（Robert Pine 饰）即将退休，他的儿子哈里斯（Michael Muhney 饰）则尾随父亲当上了警察。父子二人在六角餐馆用餐时，遭遇了在逃的赌场抢劫犯。双方展开对峙，年轻气盛的哈里斯引起大爆炸，两名劫匪劫持餐馆女招待玛雅（Mircea Monroe 饰）逃亡。在救援部队迟迟未到之时，戴维带着儿子展开谨慎的追踪。不过令双方始料未及的是，似乎有另一个神秘、恐怖的杀手将他们玩弄于鼓掌之中。邪恶的雾人精神不死，重返人间……

　　侠盗“一枝花”专劫富济贫故为人钦佩，却因正义感得罪了一名蛇蝎美人，该女子名叫“仇女”虽嫁与一土豪“孤寒财主”为妾但始终不忘被“一枝花”所辱，誓必要将“一枝花”置于死地。“一枝花”浪迹江湖，但“仇女”并未因而放过他，反而更诬造许多盗窃案令官方大举追缉之。其时江湖上出现两个小人物，一肥一瘦，肥名“胀爆”为人憨直，因仰慕“一枝花”而喜扮大侠，瘦名“扭纹柴”常自作聪明经常撞板，喜占小便宜，为了官方之花红到处找寻“一枝花”，而偶遇上“胀爆”后来反成莫逆之交，两人更结伴一同寻找“一枝花”……

　　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.