青春期的妹妹

　　天蓬元帅成为猪八戒之前一段秘史，一个所有青少年都经历过的故事，一个合家欢的故事！

影片以 1999 年西南边境为背景，聚焦森林公安的热血使命，讲述了森林公安刘钊（王天野 饰）、老赵（景岗山 饰）、王磊（任恺 饰）三人，在一次常规巡山中，意外撞破境外日本间谍头目昂山・介德（三浦研一 饰）带领的境外团伙 窃取我国NSSU血清提取样本机密，暴力劫狱潜逃后，妄图翻越大亮山穿越国境线。从平静巡山到直面穷凶极恶的匪徒，三名森林公安义无反顾开启阻击战，用血肉之躯筑起国境线上的钢铁防线，与身负窃密、贩毒、谋杀多重罪行的犯罪团伙展开一场生死博弈的硬核警匪大战！

　　该片故事灵感来自于布莱姆·斯托克的经典小说《德古拉》，是一部当代恐怖惊悚片，讲述一个年轻女子因被追求而变得神魂颠倒，但她意识到，一个哥特式的阴谋正在发生。

　　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.