VN.088 Jennanni_Jen

　　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.

　　在击败了邪恶的博士，救回了父亲洛赫特（赫里尼克·罗斯汉 Hrithik Roshan 饰）之后，克里希那（赫里尼克·罗斯汉 Hrithik Roshan 饰）和恋人普瑞雅（朴雅卡·乔普拉 Priyanka Chopra 饰）总算携手步入了婚姻的殿堂，过上了平静而又幸福的生活。而洛赫特利则用他的聪明才智制作了很多造福社会的发明。　　然而，大家都没有想到的是，在一片平静祥和的气氛之下，邪恶亦在慢慢滋生。一个名叫卡尔（维克·奥贝欧 Vivek Oberoi 饰）的邪恶天才，正在利用他的智慧组建一直非常危险的军队，企图给人类带来前所未有的危机。当克里希那挺身而出和卡尔展开对抗时，他并不知道，此次，为了保护世界的和平，他将付出比以往多得多的代价。

 这次特别篇的舞台，是吉宗治世20多年后的江户城。原创系列中年轻的将军吉宗也面临着六十大寿的继承问题。剧中保留了系列的世界观和魅力，在继承问题上摇摆不定的吉宗和江户城内的人们的模样，以及在城下町发生的阴谋漩涡的疑难事件，将被加入新的角色和时代性来描绘。

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