出走的決心

　　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.

凱倫·吉蘭、瑪格麗特·蘇菲·斯坦、杰梅因·福勒、凱文·尼倫、塔利亞·巴爾薩姆將主演喜劇新片《大器晚成》(Late Bloomers)，麗莎·斯蒂恩首導(dǎo)劇情長(zhǎng)片，已在紐約殺青。                                                                      　　斯蒂恩的多部短片搭檔安娜·格林菲爾德寫劇本，松散基于她20多歲時(shí)居住在布魯克林的經(jīng)歷，講述露易絲(吉蘭)是一個(gè)漫無(wú)目的的千禧一代，某天她醉醺醺地摔到了臀部，為此接受了物理治療，在那里結(jié)識(shí)了一位不會(huì)說(shuō)英語(yǔ)的年長(zhǎng)波蘭女士，兩人成為了閨蜜。而正是這種不太可能的友誼讓露易絲有勇氣面對(duì)她一直在逃避的事情：她母親的早發(fā)性老年癡呆癥。                                                                      　　福勒飾演露易絲的室友/房東布里克，尼倫和巴爾薩姆飾演露易絲的父母。

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