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　　影片的故事发生在波士顿，巴恩斯扮演的尼克是一位意大利裔的美国年轻人，踌躇满志的他加入波士顿黑手党，决心开创一番事业，却发现这个犯罪组织早已不复昔日之勇。　　于是尼克背着他的老板（《落水狗》、《坏中尉》男星哈威·凯特尔饰），自立门户，扩张版图，希望重塑往昔的辉煌。一手金钱，一手美人（莉顿·梅斯特饰），尼克完全不知道自己正走在危险的悬崖边。

　　科林（Judith M. Brown 饰）遭到了谋杀的指控，被关入了位于菲律宾的监狱里，等待着她的，是长达20年的牢狱之灾。人高马大的格利尔（帕姆·格里尔 Pam Grier 饰）是监狱里的大姐大，她一眼就相中了与众不同的科林，想要逼迫她委身于自己，但个性倔强的科林怎么可能就范，在反抗格利尔的过程中，科林和名叫邦妮（帕特·伍德尔 Pat Woodell 饰）的女囚成为了朋友。　　某日，科林被女警官带走了，她打算通过刑讯逼供的方式迫使科林承认自己没有犯过的罪行。焦急的邦妮找到了聪明伶俐的阿尔科特（罗伯塔·科林斯 Roberta Collins 饰），两人决定联手进行救援行动。

　　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.