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　　经历了最可怕的一段过去，可奈（大岛优子 饰）已经精神接近崩溃，残酷命运的安排，让她最终也无法逃脱半身死灵“嗒卡嗒卡”的猎杀。路过事故现场的水谷菜月和中岛玲子是就读同一所高中同一班级的好友，她们的学校即将举行文化祭。担任文化祭委员的玲子无意中触怒了班内小集团的头头刀根绘梨香，由此遭受了无休无止的孤立和欺凌。菜月看在眼里，却不敢组织，只能随波逐流。终于有一天，再也无法忍受的玲子将希望寄托在半身死灵身上，她将与绘梨香亲近的同学相继骗到人行天桥，目睹她们被猎杀的残忍一幕。　　菜月终于发现了好友的秘密，她尝试阻止，并且了解到半身死灵的背景和不为人知的过去，可是为时已晚……

　　一名即将退休的侦探与一名非洲研究教授一起追查一名正在执行古老黑魔法练习 Muti 的连环杀手。

　　科技业亿万富翁迈尔斯·布朗（爱德华·诺顿 饰）邀了几位感情深厚的挚友到他的希腊私人小岛渡假，不料却有人命丧于此！这座世外桃源原来并不如想像中美好。命案既出，大侦探布兰科（丹尼尔·克雷格饰）此时不出马更待何时？且看他如何解开重重谜团！

　　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.