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　　两个蒙面人在街上绑架了一个女人并向其索要赎金，他们将她绑了起来并且堵住了她的嘴巴，但这个女人凭借自己有限的力量破坏了绑匪精心策划的计划。

 故事发生在加州酒店之中。著名演员戴安娜（玛吉·史密斯 Maggie Smith 饰）和丈夫西德尼入住酒店，戴安娜获得了奥斯卡金像奖的提名，信心满满的她相信自己一定能够获奖，哪知道事与愿违，愤怒的戴安娜只想着赶紧离开这个让她感到伤心的地方。汉娜（简·方达 Jane Fonda 饰）带着女儿也住在酒店之中，她此行的目的是和同自己离婚已久的前夫比尔（阿伦·阿尔达 Alan Alda 饰）见面。女儿烦透了母亲的独断专决，希望能够留在这里和父亲生活一段时间。马文（沃尔特·马修 Walter Matthau 饰）比妻子早一天入住了酒店，哪知道自己的好哥们居然送了自己以为金发美人作为大礼。

一位冉冉升起的流行歌手在为她的巡回演唱会首秀做准备的同时，努力应对名利和行业压力的复杂压力，揭示了地下文化向主流成功的转变。

　　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.