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　　与丈夫离婚后，Alice必须承担起单亲母亲的全部责任，照顾她全心全意爱着的儿子August，一个好奇的小男孩。他从小就对A、他的父亲和他自己的故事充满疑问。就连他的母亲也从未谈起过他的父亲，August15岁那年，神秘的故事开始一点一点地跟随他。他父亲生前的嘱托成为August从诺拉舞的秘密中发现恐怖的原因。在试图让他认识到自己的业力同时，Alice相信理性和正义。Alice竭尽全力拯救她所爱的儿子。但她越是反抗并带领August远离现实，诡异和奇怪的事件不断升级，直到August陷入危险。决定返回寻找过去的真相。August生命危在旦夕，当Lambam家的门打开时，里面的木桩从过去一直建到了现在，与她一起打开的是Lambam家的老管理员Cherd叔叔，他知道整个故事。业力和所欠的誓言已经开始要求偿还

　　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.

 故事发生在二十世纪三十年代初期，莉莲（简·方达 Jane Fonda 饰）前往维也纳寻找自己曾经的好友茱莉亚（瓦妮莎·雷德格瑞夫 Vanessa Redgrave 饰），到达目的地之后，莉莲才知道，茱莉亚因为和法西斯支持者发生了激烈冲突而受伤住进了医院，之后不知所踪。在莉莲回归自己的生活之后，她意外的收到了茱莉亚的来信，在信中，茱莉亚请求莉莲帮助自己投运五万美元给反纳粹组织，尽管这一举动在当时意味着巨大的危险，但是莉莲还是答应了茱莉亚，最终，两个多年未见的好友在柏林重逢。然而，没过多久，莉莲便受到了茱莉亚的死讯，在悲痛之中，莉莲明白，自己还有未完成的任务。

　　3年前，话剧老师林晓阳（林嘉欣饰）的弟弟被绑架，案件交由高级督察何宛真（刘若英饰）及智叔（张兆辉饰）负责，可是在追捕的过程中，疑犯因争吵坠楼身亡，林晓阳就此埋下了怨恨。　　三年后，林晓阳患病的丈夫（赵会南饰）病情加重，需要一千万才能有治好的希望，林晓阳动了绑架富豪王森（郭 涛饰）儿子的念头。多日来林晓阳跟她从尼泊尔认识的同伙跟踪小孩动向，后来决定在一个傍晚下手。刚好案子也是有何宛真接手，就让林晓阳有了报复的心理，何宛真为了救回孩子只好服从，可她万万没有想到，原来王森的儿子，跟自己的儿子调换了衣服穿，被林晓阳绑架的正是何宛真的儿子。　　两个女人，都为着心爱的亲人在绑架案中斗志斗勇，展开激烈的较量。