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　　电影一直与阳春白雪相关，似乎很少有人把它与下里巴人联系在一起。可河南某小镇某小村，却发生了一件事，让电影与下里巴人进行了一次对接。村里的电影放映员蔡有才（李易祥 饰）一直有一个梦想，那就是亲自拍一部电影。这不是闹着玩的，有才果真开始实践起了拍电影之梦。围绕着鬼子进村的主题，有才开始寻找演员，构造场景，可这些非专业出身的演员和资金的限制，让片场状况百出也笑话百出，经过各种磨难，有才还是咬牙坚持了下来。　　本片为真人真事改编，全程用河南话进行对白。真实情形为河南许昌县灵井镇兴元铺村的农民赵兰卿发动村民一起自编自导自演了一部名为《鬼子进村》的电影，开创了农民自己拍电影的先河。

　　在第三次世界大战期间，美国政府发起了一个秘密的项目代号为“陆军培根”，以创造超级士兵近交人与猪。25年后，一种叫做“枪口”已经占据食物链的顶端，吃和人类饲养动物一样。罗布正义是一个前赏金猎人工作的最后一行人类抵抗-一组幸存者躲藏在核掩体深处地下。他的任务是找出枪口上台并消灭他们。

　　该片故事灵感来自于布莱姆·斯托克的经典小说《德古拉》，是一部当代恐怖惊悚片，讲述一个年轻女子因被追求而变得神魂颠倒，但她意识到，一个哥特式的阴谋正在发生。

　　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.