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　　约翰．卡彭特导演的这部科幻片并没有强调特技噱头，反而将重心放在异乡人的主题上，而且拍出了相当浪漫动人的气氛，甚至可以将它当作一部取外星人为主角的文艺片来欣赏。杰夫．布里奇斯饰演一名纯真的外星人，他的宇宙飞船被地救人击落，掉在威斯康辛州的荒野。他负伤来到新近丧偶的寡妇凯伦艾的家中，并且借用她丈夫的身体来延续生命。在学习地球人的生活方式过程中，他跟寡妇发生了感情。外星人的救援队将在三天后到达亚历桑纳州接他回外层空间，他需要寡妇开车送他到那里。地球上的两位政府官员也接获讯息，他们决定不管生死都要捉住外星人，因而引发了一场精彩的拉锯战。

 夏洛特（贝蒂·戴维斯 Bette Davis 饰）已经能算得上是一个老姑娘了，她梳着呆板的发型，穿着保守的服装，性格也古里古怪的，更糟糕的是，她似乎还染上了酗酒的坏毛病。在家人的建议之下，夏洛特决定踏上治疗心灵的旅途，登上了驶往远方的游轮。在游轮上，夏洛特邂逅了名为杰瑞（保罗·亨雷德 Paul Henreid 饰）的男子，并且在误打误撞之中和杰瑞的女儿结下了深厚的友谊。很快，夏洛特就感到自己坠入了情网之中，然而，此时的杰瑞并不是自由身，他有这一段无法结束的婚姻。心碎的夏洛特选择了离开，而夏洛特的母亲也在不久之后撒手人寰。

　　在为公司勤勤恳恳工作了十五年之后，亨利（让-皮埃尔·利奥德 Jean-Pierre Léaud 饰）却落得了一个被解雇的悲惨下场。心中充满愤懑的他在生活里也四处碰壁，绝望之中，他想到了自杀。可是，无论他使用什么法子，都无法成功赴死，就在这时，他在报纸上看到了一间聚集着黑道分子和杀手的小酒馆，他决定去那里试一试。　　亨利雇佣了一名杀手（肯尼斯·考利 Kenneth Colley 饰），让他来取自己的性命，然而，在此之后，亨利意外的邂逅了名叫玛格丽特（Margi Clarke 饰）的美丽卖花女孩，两人迅速擦出爱情的火花。生命有了继续下去的意义，亨利不想死了，然而，他却怎么也找不到当初和他签订了合约的杀手，这也就意味着，从此刻开始，他随时都有可能遭到杀手的暗杀。

　　Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.

　　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.

游船遇风暴沉没，陆霆、女友陈清、李娜、陈清闺蜜马樱（陆霆前女友）漂至荒岛。众人遭巨蟒袭击，得探险者遗物求生。马樱因妒生事，后联合落难驾驶员王强，王强却被巨蟒吞噬，马樱悔悟坦白。巨蟒掳走陈清，众人设伏，马樱与巨蟒同归于尽。数月后，陆霆、李娜乘直升机获救。