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　　露丝·斯雷特（布洛克饰）因暴力犯罪被判入狱，出狱后的她重新踏入社会，但自己的过去却不被原谅。面对来自她曾经称之为“家”的地方的无情评判，她获得救赎的唯一希望，就是找到当初被自己无奈丢下而疏远了的妹妹。

　　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.

　　十年前，人类为自己的愚蠢付出惨痛代价，凶险致命的猿流感病毒蔓延全球，世界毁灭殆尽。而在毗邻旧金山的原始丛林，凯撒（安迪·瑟金斯 Andy Serkis 饰）带领猩猩伙伴们建立起无忧无虑的王国，直到某一天，猩猩的家园的宁静再度被人类打破。在旧城苟延残喘的人类面临能源危机，他们试图利用森林腹地大坝的发电站提供能源。青年科学家马尔科姆（杰森·克拉科 Jason Clarke 饰）试图说服聚集地负责人德里弗斯（加里·奥德曼 Gary Oldman 饰），希望通过和平手段取得猩猩部落的信任和同意。然而凯撒的好盟友科巴（托比·凯贝尔 Toby Kebbell 饰）却无法摒除对人类的憎恨，他尝试着挑战者凯撒的权威。　　人类和猩猩，双方小心翼翼试探，而战争在所难免……

　　由一桩荒诞的“卫生巾杀人魔”案件展开，讲述了几个在日本的中国人，阴差阳错地卷入一场黑帮斗争，与日本毒枭斗智斗勇的故事。他们一个是帮派面临倒闭妄图自裁的帮派老大、一个是吊儿郎当的黑导游、 一个是残暴歹毒的黑帮毒枭、一个是唯利是图的歌舞伎町老板、一个是胸怀大志却碌碌无为的警 探，每个人为了达到目的经历了一番复杂而有趣的遭遇。　　主角刚正是一个在日本漂泊的“老炮儿”，亲手建立的帮派日益衰落，试图自裁却意外卷进命案，发现了惊人的秘密。对正义与规矩的坚守，使他选择与日本黑帮毒枭正面对决。