代代木忠的世界

　　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.

 伊薇（尼娜·凯莉 Nina Kiri 饰）肩负着照顾临终母亲的重任，她渴望逃离支离破碎的现实带来的孤独感。如今，她住在一间堆满感伤纪念品和回忆的房子里，理智和生活秩序都维系在她制作的超自然播客节目《底音》上。虽然她通常对搭档贾斯汀发给她的那些令人毛骨悚然的音频文件持怀疑态度，但最新收到的音频却让她感到不同寻常。一对年轻备孕夫妇的十段从未公开录音逐一揭晓，每一段都比上一段更加不祥。随着伊薇将这些录音与她目前的遭遇进行对比，隐藏的信息逐渐显现，将她推向疯狂的边缘……

影片改编自蒲松龄《聊斋志异》之《聂小倩》。小倩生前被人所负含恨而终，死后化为女鬼，被姥姥囚禁于兰若寺。恰逢书生宁生进京赶考，借宿此地，意外救下小倩。逃亡途中，两人不断遭遇人间及地府势力的阻挠，却也在此般经历中感情升温。宁生带着小倩感受了人间美好，小倩决心还阳，却在到达鬼市后发现事情远没有这么简单……