枕边禁书

　　一对爱侣Liz和Malcolm去到一座偏僻的小屋度假，Malcolm却因意外先回城了，留下Liz独自一人，她很快发现这座小屋有着邪恶可怕的过去，如今缠上了自己。

　　故事设定在“猿流感”病毒蔓延全球的背景下，人类几近毁灭，而进化为高级智慧生物的猿类一跃成为食物链顶端的王者。时移世异，暴虐的猿类首领赛撒（凯文·杜兰 Kevin Durand 饰）在一片废墟中建立起猿族历史上的第一个帝国——“猩球”崛起，这是世界新秩序诞生的黎明时分。神秘的人类女孩诺娃（弗蕾娅·艾伦 Freya Allan 饰）的出现，引起了赛撒的警觉。她似乎掌握着一个巨大的秘密，不仅关乎人类的存亡，甚至可能再度颠覆整个“猩球”。被迫逃亡的诺娃在躲避赛撒军队的过程中，与青年猿类诺亚（欧文·泰格 Owen Teague 饰）的命运交汇，揭开了一段冒险的旅程。

　　所谓的无船员的船携带咖啡驶入纽约,但是当警察和一些科学家在船上发现了船员可怕的尸体和大量的盒子装满绿色虫蛋。爆炸的时候蛋温度升高和任何人谁接触的物质都会爆炸。现在政府介入和幸存的军官,一名上校和一名宇航员发现这些蛋可能与灾难性的火星任务有关。

　　这部电影将六个故事组合成一个综合系列，描绘了由于人类错误的欲望而发生的奇异事件。

Young professor Anton Kosmich studies the history of Belarus. One day he is mystically transported to the Middle Ages, where he will have to unravel the secrets of the past millennia.

　　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.