超验骇客

　　在一个不知名的小岛上，一群为数不少的工人，被迫从事着最原始的体力劳动，工头将一种特制的药物混进工人的饮品中，令其体力增强，以达到高生产率的目的。
　　新来的保安队长发现了这一切，在医生JoJo的配合下，准备组织工人逃离孤岛。
　　不料走漏风声，工厂特警队奉命围歼他们，众人顿时陷入了万劫不复的绝境……

　　1997年，和战争几乎摧毁了旧世界的一切，天灾人祸，世道离乱，幸存者艰难求生，文明沦落，这是一个弱肉强食的残酷世界。少年（Munro Chambers 饰）居住在隐蔽的所在，他经常出没在废墟间，依他称之为“寻宝”的方式寻找有用的物品，然后换取食物以及他最喜欢的漫画书《极爆战士》。在此期间，古灵精怪的女孩“苹果”爱普尔（Laurence Leboeuf 饰）自顾自闯入少年的领地，虽然起初颇有些不情愿，不过少年慢慢接受了这个新伙伴。当他们的关系终于更进一步的时候，女孩突然被某个邪恶组织抓走，被迫要参加血腥残酷的角斗大赛。
　　为了救回爱普尔，少年化身他最崇拜的漫画英雄极爆战士冲入对方的领地……

　　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.

　　地球就是个人鼠星球，在AB某年