魔童村

　　因人体实验成为改造人类的キサラギ，正被一个组织追击。
　　这个组织是企图征服被分割的“东京”的不死吸血鬼团体“不死骑士团”。
　　发誓为死去的头目复仇的黑帮成员们也加入了追捕，形势升级为多方对抗。
　　“原本没有理由活下去，但也没有理由被这些家伙杀掉──”
　　运用改造过的身体中嵌入的各种武器和自己特殊的“血”，キサラギ地狱般的逃生大作战开始！！！

　　改编自Michael Crichton的同名畅销小说。
　　此片是斯科特兄弟重导2008年的电视剧而成的迷你剧。
　　犹他州的皮德蒙特小镇，一对男女情侣正在山上约会，突然一颗人造卫星掉落。好奇的两人将卫星带回小镇，却不知道也将可怕的遭难带回了小镇。突然间小镇上爆发了可怕的病毒， 人们纷纷不明原因地死去。为防止病毒扩散到其他城市，军队封锁了小镇，并派出了代号为“仙女座”的科学队前去查明病源。队员包括：传染病学家Jeremy（本杰明·布拉特BenjaminBratt 饰）、外空生物学家Angela（克里斯塔·米勒 Christa Miller 饰）、微生物学家Tsi（金大贤 饰）、病理学家Charlene（维奥拉·戴维斯 ViolaDavis 饰）。同时，一个名叫Jack（艾瑞克·麦克马奇EricMcCormack 饰）的记者似乎也在探寻着不可告人的秘密……

　　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.