办公楼：技术熟练之人

　　一名男子因猎枪走火而身亡，几乎所有的人都认为这是一起意外，只有一向风格强硬的检事霞夕子（泽口靖子 饰）倍感蹊跷。她执意深入调查，但是最终一无所获。与此同时，名叫安川初音（石野洋子 饰）的女子来到夕子老家的寺院上香，她此行的目的是悼念一个因被误解而意外死亡的男子。安川种种反常举动引起了夕子的注意，她旋即又对安川展开调查，却无意间发现这两起意外事件的关联。层层迷雾渐渐散尽，真相逐渐浮出水面……　　本片根据夏树静子的原著小说《路上の奇禍》改编，是3週連続　罪と女系列的第2部，另外两部分别为《破婚的条件》和《魔术的耳语》。

阿格内塔是个色彩鲜明且幽默的人，但表面上并不明显。她刚满49岁，孩子们已经离巢，交通办公室的工作停滞不前，阿格内塔感到自己像个透明人。而她的丈夫则通过泡冰水澡和穿着昂贵装备快速骑行找到了生活的意义。为了逃离日常生活的枯燥枷锁，阿格内塔离开了安全的瑞典生活，去法国为一位瑞典男孩做保姆。然而，当男孩艾纳尔其实是一位年迈古怪的疯狂绅士时，误会成了事实。这成为一段混乱而充满生命力的友谊的开始，彻底颠覆了阿格妮塔对生活和自我的认知。因为一个人到底怎么能活出自己宝贵的生命呢？

　　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.

　　32岁的劳伦·柯伦（克里斯蒂娜·里奇）和丈夫罗素（布莱登·佛雷切）搬进了设备先进齐全的新公寓。刚刚因为失去孩子而遭受了心理创伤患躁郁症的劳伦对公寓的安保监控系统很满意，但随后发现公寓里有些不对劲，她怀疑酒店的拥有者暗中非法操控住在其中的用户，但她的丈夫认为这些都是她的想象。劳伦独自开始调查建造公寓的公司，并雇佣了一个帮手-阴谋论者弗侬·沙斯菲尔德（约翰·库萨克）。弗侬认为这间公寓是个试验场所，里面的住户是个巨大洗脑阴谋的小白鼠。随着调查深入，劳伦也遇到了生命威胁……