白晝先生

　　影片以悲壯的筆觸，描述了30年代時期，不丹國卡爾城金將軍與日軍勾結(jié)，在城里生產(chǎn)毒氣，中國派遣特務(wù)“天字第一號”和現(xiàn)代鏢局負(fù)責(zé)接出城主尤達(dá)。女鏢師阿瓊在愛慕尤達(dá)的金將軍女兒芊芊幫助下，意欲和尤達(dá)一起逃走，但“天字第一號”力主要破壞毒氣計(jì)劃，結(jié)果被抓。金將軍為救愛女，反過來幫助他們，與日軍開始一場大戰(zhàn)。

90年代的哈城，剛刑滿釋放的徐鐵（包貝爾 飾）偶遇裝啞的舞女百靈（張夢露 飾），兩人也在幾次偶遇和深夜相伴中漸生情愫。直到除夕夜的溫暖，讓他們相互靠近，卻又因現(xiàn)實(shí)隔閡，家人誤解而屢屢拉扯。百靈為父還債的秘密賬本，讓徐鐵讀懂了她的苦衷，雷力的迫害更是將兩人推向絕境，徐鐵以命相搏救出被囚的百靈，終贏來家人祝福。這對孤獨(dú)靈魂，在世俗重壓下，以真愛焐熱了彼此的人生。

　　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.