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　　说来平平无奇，奇在竟煞是好看。娓娓道来自己过去一天的是新锐摄影师彼得胡渣，请他到香闺畅谈的是知名作家莲达罗森克兰兹。本打算将纽约艺术圈好友的生活日常结集成书，书出不成，抄本却奇迹留下，让埃拉萨克斯看得心神一动，在一室之内以灵巧多变的镜头摆位，重塑1974年那平凡却奇妙的一天。请来《欲流双行道》的宾韦沙念55页独白，三分型格三分忧郁再带三分初成名的忐忑。漫溢于16米厘的光影质感之间，是安迪华荷、苏珊桑塔格那一代人浸透于生活的艺术灵光。

 洛基•巴尔博厄(西尔维斯特•史泰龙 Sylvester Stallone 饰)是费城的过气拳击手。他空有拳击热忱，却只混杂于三流拳击赛中。一天，他对售货员艾黛丽安（塔里亚•希雷Talia Shire 饰）一见倾心，虽然这个姑娘长相一般，性格内向，却毫不阻碍洛奇对她爱得炽热。爱情得意，事业也开始一路畅通。为了庆祝美国建国200周年，当地举办了一个拳击比赛，胜出者将获得15万美元的高额奖金。美国一个拳击巨星在比赛中受了伤，主办方选中了洛奇去上演一场“灰姑娘”式的比赛，大敌当前的同时，也是洛奇事业转机、大显身手的良机。洛奇在赛场上苦撑15回合，在面肿血流之际，会不会有奇迹的发生？

　　改编自1930年代英国真实事件，一位牧师莱纳斯（约翰·赫夫南 饰）被教会任命为代理牧师，他带着妻子玛丽安（杰西卡·布朗·芬德利 饰）与女儿小爱搬进一座神秘庄园。　　但在他们入住这间屋子不久后，奇怪事情接二连三发生，除了在半夜会听见呢喃声，还会看见陌生的修道士身影，女儿小爱的行为也越来越陌生，随着被骚扰的次数越来越多，莱纳斯和玛丽安不得不寻求著名的捉鬼专家哈利（西恩·哈里斯 饰）帮忙。　　他们必须一起揭开真相，找出这栋房子的超自然力量还有它可怕且惊人的过去……

　　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.