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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.

自拍復印機

　　本片講述了主人公蘇爾因醉酒的一張自拍在網上瘋狂流傳后被取消享有獎學金的資格，她的任課教師也受其牽連，并怒斥蘇爾。但蘇爾對于醉酒的當晚發生的事情毫無記憶。于是，她開始向朋友尋求幫助以究其原委。

午夜的柳枝

　　一名聯邦調查局特工和佛羅里達州官員聯手調查一系列未偵破的謀殺案。

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七月寒潮

　　出于自衛，理查德射殺了侵入自己家中的陌生人。但是他不得不面對死者父親的殘忍報復。然而不久，敵對雙方就發現事實并不像表面展現的那么簡單，他們不得不聯合起來面對黑暗的真相。

奇跡男孩

 奧吉（雅各布·特瑞布雷 Jacob Tremblay 飾）是一個10歲的男孩，除了頭戴一個巨大的太空頭盔外，他和其他的同年齡孩子別無二致。頭盔下隱藏了奧吉因為各種手術而傷痕累累的臉龐，它不僅完美的隱藏起了奧吉脆弱自卑的內心，也成功的防止了奧吉的模樣嚇到別的孩子。奧吉沒有上過學，他的所有文化知識都是母親伊莎貝爾（朱莉婭·羅伯茨 Julia Roberts 飾）在家教授給他的。然而，伊莎貝爾漸漸感覺到，家庭課堂無法滿足奧吉的成長需要，除了學習知識，奧吉還必須學會的，是如何同除了家人以外的人交流。在憂慮重重之中，伊莎貝爾將奧吉送入了一間公立學校里，在那里，奧吉面臨的是他人生中必須要戰勝的挑戰。