丽阿娜

 预科学校巴顿学院的老师保罗（保罗·吉亚玛提 饰）不太受欢迎，不管是学生、老师还是校长，都不太喜欢他，他们觉得他浮夸又僵化。在1970年的圣诞假期，保罗留在了学校监督无法回家的学生。几天后，只有一个学生留了下来——一个名叫安格斯的15岁捣蛋鬼，他是一个被不良行为破坏的好学生，总是在被开除的边缘试探。与保罗和安格斯一起留下的还有学校厨师长玛丽，一个为特权阶层的儿子们提供服务的非裔美国妇女，她自己的儿子最近在越南失踪了。这三个截然不同的失意者组成了一个奇怪的圣诞家庭，在新英格兰大雪纷飞的两个星期里，分享着不幸经历，并意识到他们中没有人感谢自己的过去。

　　平凡女人杰莎贝尔（莎拉·斯努克 Sarah Snook 饰）与男友普瑞斯顿（马克·韦伯 Mark Webber 饰）即将迎来新的生命，当他们准备搬入新家之际，却遭遇一场突如其来的车祸。这场灾难让当下两个最重要的生命从杰莎贝尔的人生中消失，痛不欲生的她拨通了久未谋面的父亲的电话，坐着轮椅回到了位于路易斯安那的老家。某天，杰莎偶然在床下找到一卷母亲当年生她之前录下的影像，画面中妈妈期望女儿能在18岁那年看到录影带，而且用塔罗牌预测了杰莎未来的运势。预言中有一个看不见的灵魂逡巡在杰莎的身旁，而对方却满怀恶意企图将杰莎赶出房子。　　在此之后，诡异的梦境和神秘事件接连向杰莎袭来，而她将遭遇最为恐怖的一段噩梦体验……

暴雨将至，轰隆隆的声音夹杂着人群的呼喊声砸向操场，正在参加小学田径比赛的唐平安重重的摔倒在地面，当母亲李枚赶到医院时，医生却给了再生一个孩子做骨髓移植的建议，李枚怔怔的站在深不见底的楼道，像是对她过去十几年最好的惩罚，故事从这里开始。十几年前，李枚在计划生育政策下为了生二胎，不得不将襁褓中的女儿岁岁远送他乡亲戚，不料几年后，渐渐成熟的岁岁却成了猥琐养父趁女儿洗澡时偷偷窥视的对象，看上去多余的岁岁在一次争吵后离家出走，流浪的女孩却遇到了新的“父亲”刘建凯，一个住在船上打渔为生的男人，以父女相称，看起来生活就这么好起来了。几年后，突然一个陌生的女人闯入岁岁的生活，自称姑妈。其实是李枚儿子平安突发白血病以后，他们想起了被自己抛弃的女儿，通过当年的一丝联系，辗转找到了女儿岁岁，这是这个家庭唯一的希望。只是女儿岁岁似乎早已经知道了真相，他们互为朋友，互相试探，互相利用，最终他们都要回家，可是岁岁的家到底在哪里？

　　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.