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　　2012韩国电影《无情的城市》堪称“韩国版《撞车》”，以9个人物为中心，讲述他们在24小时内发生的连环悲剧。李基英在片中饰演一位放高利贷的放债人，他放贷给面临破产危机的金大宇(金石勋饰)，在金大宇没能力偿还高利贷后李基英就以此为借口威胁金大宇说要摘除他的脏器。特别是李基英在杀死自己的妻子后，当他被指定为嫌疑人接受调查时面不改色、处变不惊、泰然处之的演技表现，令人感到毛骨悚然。

　　2071。银河战争摧毁了月球，改变了地球的气候。莫斯科是热带森林，纽约是一片冰。在莫斯科上空升起一艘巨大的外星飞船-这是一个体育场，在那里进行了星际太空游戏的表演，联合体育和角斗士的战斗。整个银河系都在看比赛。只有运动员才能玩太空。这就是人们所说的那些具有非凡能力并能够管理这些能力的人。宇宙崇拜的一切，除了安东，最普通的人，谁只是梦想找到一份工作来帮助家庭。但有一天，他发现自己的超能力，并接受加入国家队。现在他是一个宇宙飞船的球员。安东还不知道这场比赛的命运决定了他的角色，最后的比赛将是一场为土地而战。

　　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.

 Dorothy, now an elderly woman haunted by her past, tries to warn her granddaughter Emily before dark forces pull her into Oz, a once familiar land now twisted by horrors.

 战争结束了，但留下的悲剧从来都不会就此断绝。在位于美国加州的一家伤兵医院里，卢克（强·沃特 Jon Voight 饰）痛苦的躺在病床上。战争彻底的夺走了他剩余人生里的幸福和自由，半身不遂的他注定再也享受不到生为一个正常人的快乐了。因为种种，卢克每天都生活在抑郁和愤怒之中。莎莉（简·方达 Jane Fonda 饰）的丈夫鲍勃（布鲁斯·邓恩 Bruce Dern 饰）是一名军官。身为军官之妻，莎莉有义务对在战争中遭难的军人们进行安抚。就这样，莎莉邂逅了卢克，并且在时间的推移之中深深的爱上了他。为了给予卢克继续活下去的希望，她不惜用自己的身体去引诱卢克。

影片通过跨越数千年、不同时空的三条故事线，交织出无形之中彼此呼应的科幻寓言。