西厢艳谈

这是一部讲述公安干警李方中、铁鹤等舍生忘死与盗墓团伙头目“老祖”斗智斗勇，最终将其擒获并把所有盗墓团伙一网打尽，追回并保护了国宝、文物的影片。

　　本片根据真实历史事件改编。　　1971年，黑人激进组织领导迈克尔X因贩毒被控告，但因他一年前取得了英国皇室成员玛格丽特公主的私密照片并以此要挟官方而被开释。英国军情五处工作人员提姆（Richard Lintern 饰）受命取回收藏在伦敦某银行的这批照片。　　提姆物色到贩毒女子玛婷（Saffron Burrows 饰），要挟她抢劫银行来为自己取得照片。玛婷很快同以泰瑞（Jason Statham 饰）为首的几个半职业罪犯或新人组成了计划挖地道劫掠保险库的团伙。　　泰瑞等人如愿将保险库洗劫，但赃物却让他们坐立不安：涉及皇室成员的私密照片、银行家行贿官员的账本、高官们不可告人的龌龊爱好……由于一位无线电爱好者无意间听到了他们作案时的对话内容，此案掀起轩然大波，泰瑞等人陷入了各种势力争夺的中心，他只能借助手上的证据苦苦周旋……

　　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.