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　　保护地球、维护和平，奥特曼对于地球人来说曾经是神一样的存在，但是近几十年，他却消失不见行踪成谜……随之取替他的是钢铁飞龙精锐小分队——隶属于GSB地球安全保卫组织。而GSB近期不断收到地球能源异常报告，全球各地纷纷出现巨大灾难。GSB组织派出钢铁飞龙，查明能源异常原因，却意外发现事件与奥特曼有关系……新旧两代地球守护者的意外相见，却成为你死我活的敌对双方。到底，这是一场意外还是一场阴谋，是谁看到了最后的事实真相？

　　1993 年，发生了可怕的事件：一个神秘的儿童节目主持人克罗克特先生神奇地从电视机中出现，绑架了年幼的孩子杀害了其父母。而在克罗克特先生绑架了女主的儿子之后，女主开始了危险的追寻之旅，她要找到这个恶魔，救出她的儿子。

　　夜深人静，荒郊野岭。几名青年男女去永宁县某废弃工厂探险，并全程微博直播。他们为自己的无知和胆大妄为付出巨大代价，最终一死一疯，另外两人昏迷不醒，还有一人下落不明。美丽女记者萧薇（邓紫衣 饰）的妹妹霈霈及其朋友子妍正是这场意外的受害者，从医生口中得知，妹妹她们出事前一定受到常人难以想象的惊吓。萧薇的搭档阿康（唐禹哲 饰）调查后发现，霈霈她们前几日都曾被某神秘微博帐户@，之后在她们微博中便各自出现一个倒计时的画面，而业已归零的正是当前的死者子妍。　　绝不相信鬼神传说的萧薇，决定亲自涉足永宁工厂一探究竟。伴随萧薇和阿康的追查，恐怖真相慢慢浮出水面……

　　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.