夜生活女王之霞姐传奇

　　一卷神秘的中国古代卷轴，由于蕴藏着巨大的力量，邪恶的坏蛋们个个都想得到它来统治世界；一个来自中国西藏的无名武僧（周润发 饰），为了保护着卷卷轴，一直过着颠沛流离的生活，他几乎躲遍了世界的每一个角落。直到有一天，武僧觉得累了，于是，他开始物色合适的人成为自己的弟子，将这个艰巨的任务继承下去。街头混混卡尔（西恩•威廉•斯科特 Seann William Scott 饰）偶然中帮武僧解了围，或许是心灵感应，武僧感应到这个混小子就是自己的传人了，于是决定将一身武功传给卡尔。卡尔开始了他对抗邪恶的艰难宿命。

　　宠爱女友的男主角，在好友帮忙下成功求婚。男主角当晚高兴入眠。至第二天醒来，发现自己在一个陌生房间，身边多了一个陌生女子，她告知是自己的老婆，惊讶之时才发现自己来到三年之后，离奇荒诞的事接踵而来，究竟为何会这样？这三年又发生了什么事？本身的女友又去了哪里呢？

　　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.

　　Troubled teens attend a Wilderness Therapy program in Utah's desert, navigating personal challenges amidst the harsh Outback environment.