六角琴

　　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.

　　The nightmare was about a demonic possession. A long time ago, there was an evil in a small town and it was jealous of the girl and would never let her go, since the devil loved the girl. One night, the evil raped the girl and she became pregnant. After months the girl could not hide her baby, her father figured her secret out and clapped the girl in irons and locked her room door. But the evil put the gun to her father' temple and saved the girl. The father had a stroke and had been sleeping on the bed for three months and died. Time went on and the girl brought a child into the world. Naturally, people who were living in the village heard the story and they did not want to see neither the girl nor the baby since when the baby was born, plants dried in the field, fishes lost in the lake and people had prayed to the god for rain, but nothing changed in the village. People got so angry, dug a hole in front of the fountain, put her into the hole and threw stones at her face. The girl died soon after. The evil went off the deep end, took a revenge of the village and killed everyone except two sisters because the evil wanted them to take care of its baby...

　　黎娜（艾米丽亚·舒勒 Emilia Schüle 饰）的故事非常悲伤和充满挫折。她从小生活在单亲家庭中，母亲只顾着自己的情感生活，忽视了对黎娜的关爱和支持。因此，她在学校里无法与同学们建立良好的关系，被视为怪异的存在，感到孤立和无助。然而，黎娜有一个隐藏的天赋：视觉艺术。她通过社交网络平台结识了同班同学提姆（雅尼克·许曼 Jannik Schümann 饰），两人因为对艺术的共同热爱逐渐互相了解和倾诉心声。他们的心灵相通，找到了互相支持和理解的温暖。　　然而，黎娜的唯一好友背叛了她，陷害她成为卖提姆毒品的告密者。从那一刻起，她遭受了持续的诬陷和误会，被社会孤立和排斥。无论她多么努力地解释自己的清白，都无法挽回已经造成的后果。

　　堅持到底的瘋狂執著者、活力爆棚的樂天派、顏值爆表的潮流DJ志願生、腦洞大開的怪咖，還有直率爆笑的傻大姐——這五位從小一起長大的死黨，雖然個性南轅北轍，但卻默契滿點。在友情屆滿24週年的同時，他們終於迎來夢寐以求的「人生首次海外旅行」！只是沒想到，這場說走就走的旅程，卻秒變災難現場：走失、誤會、鬧劇不斷升級，他們能否克服重重危機，重新找回彼此？而這場瘋狂之旅的終點，會是一生中的難忘回憶，還是友情的轉捩點呢？