丽拉说

　　时空的转换，现在与未来的穿梭，都在杰克（亚德里安·布洛迪 Adrien Brody 饰）身上神奇的发生着。他本来是一个参与过海湾战争的美国军人。意外中弹令他丧失了记忆，成为一个失忆者。继而更倒霉的是，他被警方认作杀人疑犯拉回审讯。因为判定为精神疾病，杰克免于坐牢，只是被带到精神病院，作为某项科学实验的样品。　　医生为杰克穿上了紧身衣物，把他放进停尸间。这里黑暗冰冷，只剩下零散的记忆碎片陪伴杰克。碎片中有着他将来的模样，有着一个心爱的叫杰基（凯拉·奈特利 Keira Knightley饰）的女子，更有着自己快要死去的讯息。在记忆中看到将来的杰克，在一线希望中寻找着通往生机的钥匙。

　　通过一部伪纪录片《未解之谜》五个故事娓娓道来：警察进入古宅寻找孩子遭遇神秘生物；一群印度狗仔队发现宝莱坞女星并非镜头般光鲜亮丽；几个朋友必须在遭遇外星人入侵之后与客机相撞的高空跳伞中幸存；动物权利组织闯进痛失爱犬的女士住宅后将经历至暗时刻；以及一位沙漠中的母亲调查莫哈韦沙漠幽浮飞船后成为飞船偷渡者……

 影片主线讲述了19世纪一户普通家庭来到芝加哥并奋斗的故事，影片后半一头母牛碰倒了提灯点燃了大火，展现了惊人的火灾场景。

　　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.