修道院的故事

 故事发生在小嗝嗝与没牙仔分开的五年之后，博克岛一年一度的亲衣节又到了，然而随着小嗝嗝的孩子们的长大，对龙与人曾经那段真挚而深刻的友谊只能通过父母的言语来了解，不免产生了质疑，小嗝嗝为防止孩子们对龙的误解，又能想出怎样的妙招呢？

　　在京畿道有一所废弃的住宅，此前曾属于一名金姓老板，他所经营的食品工厂蒸蒸日上，然而他因外遇而和妻子关系日渐恶劣。某天，金老板一家五口被人残忍杀害，与之有染的女员工也下落不明。附近百姓传说女员工早被杀死，她的怨灵屠杀了金老板一家，金老板的住宅也成了当地著名的鬼宅。　　2010年的一天，电视台《废家探访》剧组慕名前来，但是包括制作人李永珠、导演崔圭石、录音记者程智英、废家探访队员任万首、万美真、崔雨岚一行六人最终神秘失踪。6月的一天，摄制组的录像带素材重现天日，经过一番修复，摄制组成员们最后那段恐怖的经历得以展现世人面前……

 一个被埋藏的秘密，正准备被揭开。失踪多年的凯蒂突然回来，但回来的，真的还是原本的她吗？那些看似“好转”的变化，其实，是另一种腐败的开始。

　　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.