激情的爱

飞虎门郑坤奉命押送赈灾粮，他押送回来的赈灾粮全是沙石，郑坤锒铛入狱，几经周折，郑坤查出调换赈灾粮的罪魁祸首，郑坤与州府捕快左绫联手将贪污赈灾粮的人一干人等绳之以法，将他们一网打尽

　　本（詹姆斯·斯图尔特 James Stewart 饰）和乔（桃丽丝·戴 Doris Day 饰）是一对感情十分要好的夫妻，带着儿子汉克（Christopher Olsen 饰），一家三口来到了风景如画的摩洛哥度假。一次偶然中，本和乔结识了名叫路易斯（丹尼尔·盖林 Daniel Gélin 饰）的男人，他们在一起相处十分融洽。　　不幸的事情发生了，路易斯被凶手刺杀身亡，临死前，他透露了一个神秘的名字——“安伯斯·查培”，并且告诉本和乔，有人正在伦敦执行一项秘密的暗杀行动，在得知了这个惊天秘密后，本和乔来到了伦敦。暗杀者自知行动泄露，为了取得最后的成功，他们不择手段绑架了汉克，可即便如此，也没能动摇本和乔声张正义的决心。

　　一位精英驱魔师在对他的父亲进行未经授权的驱魔时，怀疑与他战斗的实体是一个神圣的存在——甚至可能是上帝。

　　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.