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变装皇后家好与家人疏离，因妈妈罹患失智症需贴身照顾，才久违回了家。母亲记忆力衰退，不断提起家好童年轶事，耿耿于怀。有次家好忘记卸妆被母亲撞见，为安抚她，只好谎称自己是母亲失散多年的女儿，怎料母亲信以为真，令家好展开一段疗愈原生家庭创伤之旅。到底家好是否可以月圆？王国燊继《男儿王》又一变装皇后力作，联同新加坡视帝许瑞祺和《花路阿朱妈》洪慧芳，将新加坡变装皇后Sammi Zhen真实故事搬上大银幕。

　　四名青少年在一次公路旅行中决定绕道而行，发现自己在肯塔基南部森林深处的鬼屋“万圣节尖叫公园”。在目睹了各种各样的折磨和gore之后，他们开始怀疑自己经历的事情是否有点太现实了。在他们知道之前，他们中的每一个人都被俘虏了，并成为他们原本认为可怕的乐趣和游戏的一部分…

　　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.

　　爱娜（卡蒂·奥廷宁 Kati Outinen 饰）和凯瑞（Kari Väänänen 饰）是一对感情十分要好的夫妻，他们一个是餐厅经理，一个是电车司机，尽管经济并不宽裕，甚至有些“紧巴巴”，但很显然，照此发展，两人的未来充满了光明和希望。　　经济危机的到来让爱娜和凯瑞的家庭也陷入了危机，爱娜所在的餐厅破产倒闭，凯瑞在公司的“裁员抓阄”中不幸中彩，夫妻两人同时失去了工作，家里的贷款还未还完，生活露出了真实而残酷的面孔，爱娜和凯瑞不知该如何是好。虽然丢掉了工作，但夫妻两并没有丢掉斗志和尊严，为了生存，他们做出了种种努力，不幸的是，这些努力均以失败告终。在此走投无路之际，爱娜曾经的老板出现在了爱娜的面前，他带来了一个机会，它有可能坏的，但也有可能是好的。