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 一个从事打扫工作的女子为纽约一座摩天大楼中的富人家工作，却被告知这里有一个供奉撒旦的邪教，每个月要杀一个人作为祭品，“今晚，选中了你……”

　　在一个遥远的星球上，一艘坠毁的宇宙飞船上的后代受到了神秘力量的影响，这些力量使他们在短短8天内衰老并死亡。他们还必须住在洞穴里以躲避夜间的严寒和白天的酷热。一个小男孩决心要回到把他们带到那里的那艘船上。但他将如何在剩下的短短时间内完成这一切呢

　　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.

 【故事简介】利翁兹·奥马克与天人的战斗以真正的改革者刹那·F·清英等人的胜利拉上了帷幕。独立治安维和部队A-Laws解体，世界终于走向了和平。这样过了两年，西历2314年，表面上消失了的天人为了防止战争发生仍然在暗处活动着，这时，新的战争打响了信号。再次集结起来的高达驾驶员们乘坐着新式高达，开始了战斗！【STAFF】企画：sunrise原作：矢立肇、富野由悠季脚本：黑田洋介人设原案：高河弓动画人设：千叶道德机体设定： 海老川兼武、柳濑敬之、福地仁、鹫尾直广、寺冈贤司、中谷诚一、大河原邦男动画机体设定： 中谷诚一美术设定：须江信人（KUSANAGI）美术监督：若松荣司（KUSANAGI）色彩设计：手岛明美（Wish）音响监督：三间雅文摄影监督：葛山刚士（旭Production）旁白：古谷彻制作人：池谷浩臣（sunrise）、佐々木新（sunrise）监督：水岛精二制作：创通、sunrise