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在9月29日结束为期八周的有限活动后，《香蕉骑行》据说向罗斯展示了不同的一面，这是一场结合了喜剧、自传体故事和音乐元素的更个人化、更发自内心的表演。这部剧是关于庆祝生活、纪念损失和为生活中的意外事件做好准备。

　　朱英秀（金明敏 饰）是一名律师，和妻子敏晶（朴珠美 饰）过着幸福的生活，两人共同养育着他们爱情的结晶慧琳（金素贤 饰），朱英秀相信正是因为有了主的庇护，他才能够过上如此美满的人生。然而，一场意外的发生彻底击碎了朱英秀的信念。　　绑匪绑架了年幼的慧琳，两人就此下落不明。起初，朱英秀和妻子都坚信慧琳一定能够平安归来，然而随着时间的推移，这份坚定逐渐粉碎为了尘埃。朱秀英甚至因为此时而对自己坚持一生的信仰产生了怀疑。一晃眼八年过去，一通意外的来电在这个支离破碎的家庭之内再度掀起波澜，慧琳还活着，而朱英秀唯一的信仰，就是找到她。

一天清晨，刑警惊觉自己的搭档失去了音讯。事实上，搭档在夜晚返家的途中，意外目睹一起犯罪行为。不料现场突然发生提款机爆炸，她身受重伤，随即被犯人绑走。

　　当一架客机困在一堆喷发的火山中时，乘客和机组人员必须设法求生——在不降落的情况下。但在岩浆和火山灰的持续打击下，机上的人产生了恐惧和不信任，威胁生命的不只是火山，人人必须学会合作，才能在火海飞行中活下去……

　　A team of influencer bloggers decides to hold a ritual at the mansion of the "black countess". A fan of the supernatural, she disappeared without a trace after she was offered to play a game that was supposed to take her to another dimension. By evoking the spirit of the Countess, bloggers let otherworldly forces into the world. The one who can bring the demons back will survive.

　　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.