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　　A grieving mother hires an enigmatic stranger to perform a ritual to resurrect her late husband. When the ceremony goes out of control, mother and daughter must overcome their differences and fight for survival.

　　阳光明媚的日子里，约翰（丹尼尔·佐瓦特 Daniel Zovatto 饰）和凯蒂（邦妮·戴尼森 Bonnie Dennison 饰）、麦特（克里斯·克罗伊 Chris Conroy 饰）、齐克（格里芬·纽曼 Griffin Newman 饰）、西蒙（约翰尼·奥希尼 Jonny Orsini 饰）和黛比（Mackenzie Rosman 饰）等五名好友，驱车来到一个毗邻湖边的僻静所在进行他们毕业前的纪念派对。他们划着小船来到湖中央，曾经有着恐怖记忆的约翰对这片水域颇多忌惮，但是他胆大妄为的伙伴们则竞相跳入水中，享受戏水的快乐时光。谁知好景不长，先是小船遭到猛烈碰撞，接着黛比被一条怪鱼咬伤致死。　　年轻人的噩梦由此展开，他们的磨难还未就此结束，嗜血猎手渐次向他们逼近……

　　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.

　　迈尔斯（保罗•吉亚玛提 Paul Giamatti 饰）和杰克（托马斯•哈登•丘奇 Thomas Haden Church 饰）是老朋友了，看着杰克即将踏入婚姻殿堂，迈尔斯更加感叹起自己失败的生活：婚姻失败、作家梦遥不可及、干着无聊枯燥的职业、不再年轻的岁数。迈尔斯对葡萄酒的研究颇为深厚，于是两个人决定前往加州的葡萄酒生产基地狂欢一次，如果遇上一夜情当然是最好不过了。　　果然二人在酒香浓郁的加州遇上了女招待和她的亚裔朋友，迈尔斯和杰克的艳遇让两人都兴奋不已。然而接下来的事情却大扫兴致。他们的狂欢计划充满了障碍。