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　　一名过气冰上曲棍球教练，在麻州小镇中领导一队二流球队辗转作战，终于在最后一场比赛中挽回他失落的名声。这是一部拍得相当直率粗暴的男性化运动片，冰上曲棍球的比赛场面经常可见互殴和流血镜头，加上对白的"四字经"不绝于耳，当年首映时也引起了不少争论。曾经合作过金像奖电影《刺激：骗中骗》的导演乔治·莱希尔和明星保罗·纽曼，再一次表现出卖力的成绩。

　　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.

　　《奇怪的末班车》高中生三上圭介结束了学校的社团活动已是深夜，他好不容易等来了末班车，车上的气氛却十分诡异；《同学会的通知》放弃了美大的梦想，女孩小山今日香正在参加补习，某天她收到一通小学同学会的电话留言，于是和好友惠相约前往那个未知的所在；《恶梦十三日》人生正逢低谷的青年高崎圭太（向井理 饰）好不容易找到一份能够提供宿舍的工作，可是他所在宿舍房间每到深夜2点就会传来奇怪的声音；《深渊迷路孩童》小女孩彩香（芦田爱菜 饰）独自住院，某天夜里她结识了自称住在老楼的轮椅姐姐，两人成了好朋友；《愤怒的红宝石》宝石设计师川原美里受雇对一枚红宝石进行改造，结果遭遇了最为离奇的一段经历。