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　　尤瑟夫每天都往返于他的農(nóng)耕村莊巴斯瑪和他在耶路撒冷城里的工作之間，滿懷熱情地努力在瞬息萬變的現(xiàn)代世界中尋找自己的位置。他年輕而躁動，更渴望擺脫鄉(xiāng)村生活的束縛，而不是被卷入其中的種種煩惱。尤瑟夫的故事與年輕寡婦拉巴布和她的女兒阿芙拉、粗獷的領(lǐng)袖哈立德、鞋匠兼當(dāng)?shù)厣窀缚ɡ锬返膬鹤右约盎盍λ纳涞亩际腥撕R德和她的商人丈夫阿明的故事交織在一起。

　　Cineverse制作新版《平安夜，殺人夜》，計(jì)劃于2025年底上院線。

　　該電影以民國民俗懸疑為題材，講述了一個二十年前的悲劇，以及二十年后的探秘之旅。在二十年前，龍二奎（由劉交心扮演）在趕山途中救助山中麻風(fēng)病院，但一次誤用山中藥材卻引發(fā)了一場悲劇。二十年后，龍二奎攜帶徒弟林耀山（由張倬聞扮演）等人再次踏上趕山之路，尋找未知的秘密。

　　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.