爱，奇怪的爱

中年诗人奥斯卡·雷斯特雷波沉迷于诗歌，却始终未获认可。他孤僻而失落，活成了“被遗忘的诗人”典型。一次偶然的邂逅，他结识了出身贫寒的少女尤拉迪，并试图引导她走上创作之路。随着两人关系的深入，奥斯卡将她带入诗人世界，却也让她面临理想与现实的冲突。

　　周公是个70多岁的富翁，因为妻子不能生育，想娶个年轻的姑娘生个儿子继承产业。一次偶然的机会他相中了一个名叫带水的渔家女，于是买了好多时髦的东西送给带水的父母作为聘礼。而正值怀春佳龄的带水却看上了周的手下——风度翩翩的夏公子，夏公子以捧带水做明星的托口哄住她。怎料带水举止粗俗，品性不羁，忍受不了严格的瘦身美体的训练。而一直暗恋带水的炒蚬仔公子娇眼看着心上人执迷不悟地做富贵痴梦，展开了一场谐趣层生的夺妻大战……

　　An L.A. cop discovers a local task force is hiding a secret that puts the residents of his childhood neighborhood in danger.

　　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.