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　　莉娜（娜塔莉·波特曼 Natalie Portman 饰）是一名生物学家，一年前，她的丈夫凯恩（奥斯卡·伊萨克 Oscar Isaac 饰）在参加一项秘密任务后神秘失踪，这一年间，莉娜一直生活在悲伤之中。某天，失忆的凯恩忽然出现在了莉娜的面前，之后晕倒被送入了医院。在那里，莉娜遇见了文崔斯博士（詹妮弗·杰森·李 Jennifer Jason Leigh 饰）。
　　博士告诉莉娜，凯恩被派往了一块被“闪光”笼罩的未知区域，三年间，无数的队伍被派往区域内进行勘探，只有凯恩一人活着回来了。不仅如此，“闪光”正在不断的扩大。为了查明事情的真相，莉娜自愿加入了下一批被派遣的队伍之中，和她一同前往的，除了文崔斯博士外，还有安雅（吉娜·罗德里格兹 Gina Rodriguez 饰）和乔茜（泰莎·汤普森 Tessa Thompson 饰）。

亚当生活在一个平凡的家庭中，他的哥哥在一次车祸中丧生，自那之后，父母经常在失去爱子的悲痛中挣扎着。亚当也一直以为，...

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　　康纳思（安东尼·特雷奇·克里斯 Anthony 'Treach' Criss 饰）曾经是就职于CIA的超级特工，拥有强健的身体和丰富的经验。一次，在执行拯救总统夫人的任务时，康纳思遭遇了意外，导致了他双目失明，就这样，康纳思不得不和他热衷的特工事业说再见了。
　　一晃眼三年过去，康纳思曾经的上级再度找到了他，不仅治好了他的眼睛，还令康纳思神奇的获得了夜视的特殊能力。凭借着这一能力，康纳思完美的完成了上司派给他的新任务，可是之后，康纳思不仅再度失明，而且还遭到了国家安全局的追捕。原来，康纳思的上司早就遭到了停职处分，为了报复CIA，他哄骗康纳思偷得了毒气炸弹。

　　一项革命性的人类基因研究计划，为预防疾病与犯罪带来了莫大帮助，身为研究员的一份子，希欧多不但致力于生命的发展与延续，还有个能预知他人死亡的特殊能力。不过这次他的能力却阴错阳差害死了自己的女友安娜，内疚不已的希欧多以悲伤度日，直到一个月过去，安娜竟又活生生地出现在他面前？

　　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.