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　　一对兄弟在他们的庄园附近发现了一具残缺不全的尸体，于是召集当地人一起调查。他们很快了解到，村子里发生的怪事是由一个恶灵引起的，这个灵魂进入了一个当地人的体内，他们等待着通过适当的程序驱逐他体内溃烂的恶魔。主角们不得不与迫在眉睫的危险赛跑，试图摆脱恶灵无情的魔爪。

　　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.

 菜埔（庄益增 饰）是一家雕塑厂的夜间保安，家中有一位重病的老母亲需要照顾。肚财（陈竹昇 饰）是菜埔唯一的朋友，菜埔经常在值夜班的时候把肚财叫过来和他作伴。一天，两人突发奇想决定看一看菜埔的老板黄启文（戴立忍 饰）的行车记录仪里记录了哪些影像，希望向来风流的老板能够贡献出一些精彩的片段以解两个独身男人内心里的寂寞之苦。行车记录仪所记录的影像果然没有让菜埔和肚财失望，但与此同时，两人也发现了黄启文的许多不可告人的秘密。实际上，菜埔和肚财的一举一动皆没有逃过黄启文的眼睛，为了保住自己的地位和名声，他决定采取一些必要的行动。

　　一位年迈的老警察深信在他小镇上被捕的神秘陌生人是无辜的，进而展开的调查就像捅了马蜂窝一样，将永远改变这个镇子。