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　　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.

一馬當先

　　退休的副警察局長烏達亞巴努（Udhayabhanu）在電視節(jié)目中講述了他職業(yè)生涯中的一些事件。這就是他如何揭示其職業(yè)生涯中具有里程碑意義的 “切帕南托塔案 ”中耐人尋味的細節(jié)。當嚴厲的巡回督察賈亞山卡爾（Jayashankar）和巡警卡爾蒂克（Karthik）開始一起工作時，一連串的事件就開始了。他們經(jīng)常因為處理情況和解決問題的方法不同而發(fā)生沖突。在家人、朋友、敵人和上司的注視下，他們以各自獨特的風格，試圖解開糾纏不清的困境。誰能迎接挑戰(zhàn)，又能以多快的速度完成任務？

如何大賺一筆

迷失太空

　　公元22世紀，因為人口過度膨脹、過度開發(fā)、環(huán)境極度惡化、食物也消耗殆盡。人類想要存活下去，就必須要到宇宙中去尋找新的可以棲身的星球。因此制造了一艘當時最先進的太空飛船，去考察發(fā)現(xiàn)的一顆可能適宜人類生存的星球。羅伯遜（威廉·赫特 William Hurt  飾）一家被選中擔負起了這次探索使命，他們將用10年的時間前往阿爾法星球?？墒牵@次擔負起全人類命運的任務卻有反對的聲音，部分邪惡勢力妄圖阻止這次任務。所以，當羅伯遜一家駕駛太空船剛進入太空的預定軌道時，反對派史密斯博士暗中進行破壞，導致飛船脫離的正常的軌道迫降到了一顆不知名的星球上。飛船上邪惡勢力的阻撓，不知名星球上的種種危機，如何才能重新設定新的航線……各種問題困惑著羅伯遜一家，他們真的就此迷失太空，無法到達目的地了嗎？人類的命運將何去何從？

致命錄像帶

　　蓋里（Calvin Reeder 飾）、扎克（Lane Hughes 飾）等人是一伙無惡不作的不法之徒，某天他們接到委托，要闖入某戶人家偷取一盒神秘的錄像帶。空空蕩蕩的大房子里，只有一個死去的老人坐在電視機前。他們無所顧忌，播放了那盤錄像帶：第一段視頻中，一群年輕人帶著針頭攝像頭去夜店狂歡把妹，卻遭遇一名奪命妖妹；一對旅行中的情侶入住Motel，期間他們偶遇一名請求搭車的女子，夜晚更有人潛入他們的房間，厄運降臨；兩男兩女驅車去林區(qū)度假，卻遭遇兇殘的殺手；一對網(wǎng)絡情侶通過視頻聊天，女子聲稱經(jīng)常在家中聽到奇怪的聲響。鏡頭前，一幕幕恐怖畫面接連上演。萬圣節(jié)，幾名男子以外遭遇了神秘而殘酷的儀式，他們介入其中，自己的命運也發(fā)生改變?！　′浵駧ЫY束，恐怖故事卻剛剛來開序幕……

四封情書

尼古拉斯·考夫蘭和伊莎貝爾·戈爾注定要在一起。問題是他們是否會發(fā)現(xiàn)。正如鬼魂、命運和真愛的純粹力量將尼古拉斯和伊莎貝爾拉在一起一樣，生活也有可能將他們分開。

平原上的迷途

　　卡洛比安奇和多里亞諾是兩個生活拮據(jù)的五十多歲男人，他們秉持著“絕不錯過最后一杯酒”的人生哲學。在一次偶然的機會中，他們結識了朱利奧，一位性格內向、對人生感到迷茫的建筑學學生。這場看似不經(jīng)意的邂逅，卻逐漸演變成了一場穿越威尼斯平原的混亂公路旅行?！　≡诼猛局校愀獾慕ㄗh、宿醉的困擾以及意料之外的友情，不斷挑戰(zhàn)朱利奧對人生和愛情的原有計劃。這場旅程不僅重新定義了他們彼此的生活，也讓朱利奧開始重新思考自己的未來方向。