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　　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.

 当人类仰望深空，是否有一个“它”也正在对望？一场关于外星文明的全球“揭秘”，即将颠覆人类认知。而这背后隐藏的真相，为何有人想要将它永远封存？

　　难得一见的流星雨即将在俄罗斯上空出现，青年男女们兴奋非常，纷纷走上街头见证着历史性的一刻。美丽女孩尤利娅（伊琳娜·斯达森保姆 Irina Starshenbaum 饰）不顾身为军官的父亲的反对，执意和特姆（亚历山大·佩特罗夫 Alexander Petrov 饰）交往。在流星雨来的这天，他们躲在一隅偷欢，却不知莫大的危机正在袭来。一艘外星飞船遭到意外，结果又被俄罗斯空军击中。它在迫降的过程中给莫斯科造成毁灭性的打击，而尤利娅的闺蜜也在灾难中丧生。在此之后，尤利娅和朋友们闯入禁区，遭遇了外星人。阴差阳错，她决定救治受重伤的外星飞行员汉克（林奈·穆罕默托夫 Rinal Mukhametov 饰），而特姆等憎恶外星人带来的灾难，对汉克恨之入骨。
　　跨越时空的爱情在此过程中产生……