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　　危险且不可预测的任务！在这饱受战争蹂躏的国家，他能否改变现状？　　麦可福斯特曾是一名士兵，后来成为承包商，他和他的团队发现自己在一个与内战残余和秘密犯罪分子作斗争的国家中执行着一项危险的任务…

　　说来平平无奇，奇在竟煞是好看。娓娓道来自己过去一天的是新锐摄影师彼得胡渣，请他到香闺畅谈的是知名作家莲达罗森克兰兹。本打算将纽约艺术圈好友的生活日常结集成书，书出不成，抄本却奇迹留下，让埃拉萨克斯看得心神一动，在一室之内以灵巧多变的镜头摆位，重塑1974年那平凡却奇妙的一天。请来《欲流双行道》的宾韦沙念55页独白，三分型格三分忧郁再带三分初成名的忐忑。漫溢于16米厘的光影质感之间，是安迪华荷、苏珊桑塔格那一代人浸透于生活的艺术灵光。

　　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.

　　结束了德川幕府的统治，明治政府巍然确立。当年叱咤风云的“刽子手”釜田十兵卫（渡边谦 饰），作为幕府余党在荒芜寒冷的北海道过起隐姓埋名的生活。他当年对亡妻许下封印杀人刀的约定，通过劳作养活自己和两个孩子，但残酷的生存环境仍让他感到力不从心。这一日，十兵卫当年的战友马场金吾（柄本明 饰）前来造访。原来附近一座小镇上，美丽的妓女夏目（忽那汐里 饰）被粗暴的女人毁容，但是警察署长大石一藏（佐藤浩市 饰）却包庇纵容。夏目的同伴们凑钱寻找赏金杀手，无奈胆敢来犯的人们均被大石残暴摧折。为了改善孩子们的生活，十兵卫和马场上路，并在路上结识了怀着同一个目标的阿伊努族青年（柳乐优弥 饰）。三人一路同行，等待他们的将是未知的命运……　　本片翻拍自克林特·伊斯特伍德的同名之作。