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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.

7號房的禮物

 1997年，只有6歲兒童智商的智障男子李龍久（柳成龍 飾）和可愛的女兒藝勝（葛素媛 飾）相依為命，生活雖然簡單清貧，卻充滿幸福。某天，執著為女兒買美少女戰士書包的龍久意外卷入一起幼童誘拐奸殺案，而死者竟是警察局長的女兒。龍久懵懂無知，搞不清狀況，昏頭昏腦就被投入監獄。在7號牢房中，聚集著走私犯蘇楊浩（吳達洙 飾）、詐騙犯崔春浩（樸元尚 飾）、通奸犯姜萬范（金正泰 飾）、恐嚇犯老徐（金基燦 飾）和搶劫犯申奉植（鄭萬植 飾）等五毒俱全的“社會渣滓”。龍久孩子般純潔的心漸漸感動了這幾個“大壞蛋”，他們甚至不惜冒險將藝勝帶入牢房與父親相會。黑暗冰冷的監牢內，7號牢房陽光滿滿……

至尊馬蒂

　　為了實現一個無人相信的偉大夢想，馬蒂去了一趟地獄。　　年輕迷人的馬蒂，渴望名聲、榮耀，以及遙不可及的“世界乒乓球冠軍”頭銜。為了夢想，他什么都能做到。穿越紐約、巴黎、倫敦、開羅與東京，他在無數的挫折與考驗中前行，遇見了摯友、戀人與伙伴，也一次次在勝敗之間重生。最終，他開創了自己的偉大道路，也領悟了榮光的真正意義。

困惑的浪漫2

因丟失尸體和愛人，羅伯特（Daktari Lorenz 飾）在絕望中以極其慘烈的方式自殺身亡。然而他的尸體并未因此得到寧靜，仿佛命中注定一般，才被葬入黃土不久的羅伯特又被妙齡女郎莫妮卡（Monika M. 飾）挖了出來。莫妮卡和羅伯特一樣，對死尸有著深深的迷戀，她和死去的羅伯特仿佛愛人似的生活在一起。　　某晚，莫妮卡在電影院門口邂逅馬克（Mark Reeder 飾），兩人隨即開始交往。看似浪漫的愛情雖然讓莫妮卡一度想要改掉怪異的愛好，但她仍然無法接受愛情的索然無味。直到某天，馬克發現了女友的秘密，他們的關系開始朝著不可預測的方向發展……

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