美味的姨母

　　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.

　　朱英秀（金明敏 飾）是一名律師，和妻子敏晶（樸珠美 飾）過(guò)著幸福的生活，兩人共同養(yǎng)育著他們愛(ài)情的結(jié)晶慧琳（金素賢 飾），朱英秀相信正是因?yàn)橛辛酥鞯谋幼o(hù)，他才能夠過(guò)上如此美滿的人生。然而，一場(chǎng)意外的發(fā)生徹底擊碎了朱英秀的信念?！　〗壏私壖芰四暧椎幕哿?，兩人就此下落不明。起初，朱英秀和妻子都堅(jiān)信慧琳一定能夠平安歸來(lái)，然而隨著時(shí)間的推移，這份堅(jiān)定逐漸粉碎為了塵埃。朱秀英甚至因?yàn)榇藭r(shí)而對(duì)自己堅(jiān)持一生的信仰產(chǎn)生了懷疑。一晃眼八年過(guò)去，一通意外的來(lái)電在這個(gè)支離破碎的家庭之內(nèi)再度掀起波瀾，慧琳還活著，而朱英秀唯一的信仰，就是找到她。

　　2071。銀河戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)摧毀了月球，改變了地球的氣候。莫斯科是熱帶森林，紐約是一片冰。在莫斯科上空升起一艘巨大的外星飛船-這是一個(gè)體育場(chǎng)，在那里進(jìn)行了星際太空游戲的表演，聯(lián)合體育和角斗士的戰(zhàn)斗。整個(gè)銀河系都在看比賽。只有運(yùn)動(dòng)員才能玩太空。這就是人們所說(shuō)的那些具有非凡能力并能夠管理這些能力的人。宇宙崇拜的一切，除了安東，最普通的人，誰(shuí)只是夢(mèng)想找到一份工作來(lái)幫助家庭。但有一天，他發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的超能力，并接受加入國(guó)家隊(duì)。現(xiàn)在他是一個(gè)宇宙飛船的球員。安東還不知道這場(chǎng)比賽的命運(yùn)決定了他的角色，最后的比賽將是一場(chǎng)為土地而戰(zhàn)。