天使禁恋

　　亚历斯和莎玛是一对年轻恋人，他们于前往波斯尼亚与赫塞哥维纳中心时车子抛锚在森林里，他们决定向附近的村庄求援。路上，巴尔干战乱的穆斯林幸存者莎玛，开始怀疑有神秘力量追高清在跟着他们，而自信、快乐的年轻欧洲人亚历斯，试图让莎玛甩开这些胡思乱想；但莎玛紧握着她的穆斯林护身符「哈麦利亚」不放，导致神秘力量从森林里逐渐浮现…

　　保护地球、维护和平，奥特曼对于地球人来说曾经是神一样的存在，但是近几十年，他却消失不见行踪成谜……随之取替他的是钢铁飞龙精锐小分队——隶属于GSB地球安全保卫组织。而GSB近期不断收到地球能源异常报告，全球各地纷纷出现巨大灾难。GSB组织派出钢铁飞龙，查明能源异常原因，却意外发现事件与奥特曼有关系……新旧两代地球守护者的意外相见，却成为你死我活的敌对双方。到底，这是一场意外还是一场阴谋，是谁看到了最后的事实真相？

　　底层捕快薛不疑（刘峰超 饰）因不谙世故遭同僚排挤，憋屈十年。一桩赈灾银盗窃案他沦为替罪羊。绝境中，他受老师黄士宁（淳于珊珊 饰）搭救，与师弟李震（袁福福 饰）再度合作，然而钱外有钱官外有官，他被迫成为高官手中的“犬牙”……在这黑暗世道，他是会选择做一只听话的鹰犬，还是挣脱这巨 手成为啄天之鹰？

　　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.