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　　影片改编自笭菁的同名恐怖小说。　　万万不可将八字交给他人，否则……后果自负。

　　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.

　　《在断崖下》：青年蒲冈大辉（伊藤淳史 饰）将车停在悬崖旁和女友幽会，突然一股神秘的力量将汽车推向悬崖；《6号房间》：女高中生久保有纱（堀北真希 饰）和长泽美奈子等朋友去唱卡拉OK，自从她们使用过诡异的6号房间后，美奈子就变得分外怪异；《不可思议的时间》：为了赶上即将进行的世界杯比赛转播，小职员白石大吾（平冈祐太 饰）匆匆搭上一辆计程车，却在很短的时间内经历了一段漫长的旅程；《四叠半的贵妇人》：森三中的大岛美幸买到一只精致的茶杯，随茶杯一同来到她家的还有一个身穿洋装的贵妇人；《体验者》：市场调研人员今泉诚一（高岛政伸 饰）在某超市调查期间，发现店员似乎正被某个看不见的女人所侵扰；《病栋的绒毛玩具》：某所医院有一只泰迪熊毛绒玩具，所有把玩它的老人都回去世。

　　冷战时，全球两大特工组织——俄罗斯“中心”与英国“圆场”明争暗斗。特工遇害，高层震怒，责成“圆场”挖出“地鼠”。怀疑对象共有5人，即圆场上任“老总”命名的锅匠，裁缝，士兵，穷人，乞丐。其中，金盆洗手的“乞丐”乔治·史迈利(加里·奥德曼 Gary Oldman 饰)本来有重大嫌疑。某日，行动组-剥头皮组头目的彼得·吉勒姆(本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇 Benedict Cumberbatch 饰)与英国内阁办公室谍报总监拉康排除了史迈利的嫌疑，令其重新出山，负责挖出“地鼠”。于是，史迈利开始分别走访故人，调查“圆场”老大阿勒莱恩，裁缝-比尔·海顿(科林·费斯 Colin Firth 饰)，士兵-掌管东欧事务的资深间谍罗埃·布兰德，穷人-后勤部门点路灯组组长托比·伊斯特哈斯。一时间，圆场疑云密布，人人自危，究竟谁才是“地鼠”……　　本片本片根据约翰·勒卡雷的同名小说改编。片名来自英国民间的“鹅妈妈童谣集”。