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人生低谷迫使两位女子偷盗数百万黄金——这是他们人生中最后一次生死攸关的冒险。                                                                      　　美善（Mi Seon）和道静（Do Gyeong）或许早已习惯在首尔江南区最危险的地段挣扎求生，但这并不意味着她们已经安于此地。除了彼此之外，两位好友只能拼命攒钱，想要摆脱危险的生活方式。然而，就在“退休”指日可待之际，世界却背叛了她们，粉碎了她们的希望。在绝路边缘，她们在江南区发现了一笔隐藏的财富，其中包括赃款和黄金——并将所有赌注押在了人生中最后一次豪赌上。

　　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.

 哈利（ Art Carney 饰）是个退休教师，终其一生都在为妻女奋斗，住在纽约上西区的他，一直没有为自己追求什么，当政府为了兴建停车场而决定拆除哈利的房子，他打包行李带着他最忠心的好友 Tonto 一同展开了一场跨越美国的旅程，他沿途拜访子女与多年好友，也因此结识了许多新朋友...本片由 Paul Mazursky 执导，获得1974年奥斯卡最佳男主角与金球奖喜剧音乐类影片最佳男主角。

改编自Frank Shyong撰写的《洛杉矶时报》报道《一个垂死母亲的计划》(A Dying Mother’s Plan)。来自真实事件，被形容为“让人心碎的故事，聚焦理解心理疾病的多层面的重要性，尤其是亚裔社群中”，讲述在圣盖博谷，一个患上癌症绝症的母亲奋力想要帮助自己情绪不稳定的儿子——她发现儿子对大规模枪击案越发沉迷。