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　　改编自芙蕾达·麦克法登的同名畅销小说。　　为生计挣扎的女子米莉（西德尼·斯维尼 Sydney Sweeney 饰）找到了一个新的开始，在一对看似完美且富有的夫妻妮娜（阿曼达·塞弗里德 Amanda Seyfried 饰）和安德鲁（布兰登·斯克莱纳 Brandon Sklenar 饰）的家中做家政。然而，米莉很快发现一家人的秘密比自己的要危险得多，这座豪宅背后上演着充满秘辛、丑闻、权力诱惑的游戏。

　　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.

　　某个晴朗假日，美国青年尼克（Jay Gillespie 饰）和好友史蒂文（Nick Eversman 饰）驱车穿越国境线，打算前往墨西哥的提华纳寻找一次绝佳的艳遇。他们很快便锁定了一个性感尤物，但是突如其来的意外让二人的狂欢设想灰飞烟灭。正当他们垂头丧气之际，某当地人送给二人一个精致的魔方。尼克和史蒂文的命运就此改写，他们也有如人间蒸发一般消失。　　尼克和史蒂文的失踪给各自家人莫大的打击，在一次家庭聚会中，艾玛（Tracey Fairaway 饰）从两人的行李中找到了那枚魔方，而浑身是血的史蒂文也突然出现在房间内。家人们对此感到惊奇喜悦，却不知道丁头鬼的魔爪正慢慢伸向他们……

　　一次偶然中，阿秋（吴耀汉 饰）和贝多芬（岑建勋 饰）结识了犯罪调查专家阿文（许冠文 饰），志同道合的三人成为了很好的朋友。然而阿秋和贝多芬的真实身份系大盗，两人和阿文正邪不两立，而阿文对此并不知情，三人的关系在摇摇欲坠之中维系着艰难的平衡。　　某日，阿文在商场里撞见了自己的妻子杜白莉（胡茵梦 饰）正在和珠宝富商阿杨（翁世杰 饰）约会，遭到了背叛的阿文感到十分愤怒，决定对阿杨进行报复。阿文驾驶着自己的机车要和阿杨的豪车一决高下，哪知道遭遇了车祸，不仅自己受伤，坐骑也报废无法再骑，窘迫的时刻，阿秋和贝多芬及时出现，替阿文解了围。

　　影片在舒缓的节奏下呈现了一位女性重塑自我之路，故事主人公安娜为她十几岁时犯下的谋杀罪已经服刑15年，虽然服刑期满，但周围异样的眼神意味着 对她的审判仍未结束。安娜离家远行来到一个小镇并找到工作，准备开启新生活，但她仍需与封闭、恐惧、偏见不停斗争，那些旧日时光留下的黑洞，必须由她亲自填补。

29岁的洛朗正在寻找人生的意义。他最终来到一个淡季的废弃滑雪场，很快融入了当地少数居民的奇特生活。当冬季来临游客涌入时，洛朗却发现自已已无法抽身……