末日迷蹤：敵基督的崛起

一個選擇，兩種人生軌跡。她的故事，還是他的真相？

　　20世紀(jì)末，波黑戰(zhàn)火籠罩的巴爾干地區(qū)。聾啞少女安吉爾（羅茜·戴伊 Rosie Day 飾）目睹了親人鄰居被武裝分子殘忍殺害的一幕，在此之后她也失去自由，與數(shù)名同齡女孩被擄至暴徒維克托（凱文·霍華斯 Kevin Howarth 飾）所盤踞的地獄之所。女孩們被迫淪為性奴，飽受摧殘與折磨，生命卑微有如在暴風(fēng)雨中搖曳的燭火。身處無聲世界的安吉爾似乎得到上天微薄的憐惜，她每天的工作便是穿梭于各個房間，為女孩們擦拭血跡，注射藥物，緩解疼痛，小小年紀(jì)卻見識了人世間最殘酷的景象。慘無人道且防守嚴(yán)密的人間煉獄，安吉爾決定帶著姐妹們逃出生天。當(dāng)殺母仇人格倫突然來到此地，一切走向失控的邊緣……　　本片榮獲2013年葡萄牙國際奇幻電影節(jié)影評人選擇獎。

故事以19世紀(jì)的開曼群島為背景，索爾達(dá)娜飾演居住在加勒比海地區(qū)的埃克塞爾，這是一個非常強(qiáng)勢的女性角色，當(dāng)她的島嶼被兇殘的海盜入侵時(shí)，她過去的秘密將被揭開。

　　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.