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　　一群朋友计划离开城市去海边度过一个轻松的周末，但事情发生了变化，一个年轻女子在一个偏僻岛屿的岸边向他们挥手求助。伸手救援便是致命的危险，他们不顾一切要逃离小岛。

　　影片讲述在地球已被外星人占领了10年之后的芝加哥市区，一股反抗势力异军突起，与服从派的政府势力产生了不可调和的矛盾，一场战斗由此而生。《俘虏国度》由焦点影业出品，将于3月29日在北美上映。

影片以一部“本应播出却被紧急叫停的纪录片”为线索，记录了一名男子与三位妻子共同生活的影像。网页设计师萩原浩司、作为家庭经济支柱的公司经营者中濑由子、前模特乾真理奈，以及护士内野枫——四名相关人士被召集到一起，观看了一段丈夫被杀害的录像。然而，随着影像逐渐展开，三位妻子却先后承认： 凶手是自己。爱、依赖、嫉妒与谎言交织在影像背后，纪录片的真实目的也随之变得模糊。这部被“禁止播出”的影像，究竟隐藏着怎样的真相？

　　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.