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　　火、水、风、土、和空气，生命五种核心元素曾经注入在一本书--命运之书。黑暗笼罩了大地，需要借助笔和书的力量，但这本书却失踪了，人们以为它永远消失了，但数百年后却又再度出现……

2056 - 公司士兵 Hannah 和科学家 Gavin 和 Dimitri 在 RUBIKON 空间站上研究一个旨在为人类提供永久氧气和食物供应的藻类项目。 但是突然之间，他们脚下的大地消失在棕色有毒的雾中，所有的联系都中断了——他们是最后的幸存者吗？ 他们应该离开安全站，冒着生命危险飞回来吗？ 什么值得活着，什么值得死？

　　一艘以超光速推进的离地球58光年的飞船“黑星球号”发生了故障，指挥官死亡，因为太远地球基地已经没有能力给与协助。船上的其他四名宇航员必须继续执行他们的任务——摧毁最后一颗不稳定的行星，完成殖民化清空。宇航员们已经离开地球20个地球年，但他们只老了3岁，无聊的太空生活无时不在折磨着他们。

　　讲述了一个迷人而又变态的人和一个被他玩弄于股掌之间的女人之间扣人心弦的故事。

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...

　　伊桑（马克·杜普拉斯 Mark Duplass 饰）和索菲（伊丽莎白·莫斯 Elisabeth Moss 饰）结婚多年，彼此之间的感情由浓转淡，最终陷入了僵局之中。为了挽回他们的婚姻，两人决定去咨询爱情专家，在爱情专家的建议下，伊桑和索菲来到了一个神秘之地度假，爱情专家告诉他们，曾经来这里度假的夫妻们最终都收获了美满的婚姻。
　　在度假村，伊桑和索菲遇见了另一对夫妻，让两人感到震惊的是，这对夫妻的长相竟然和他们一模一样。在好奇心的驱使之下，伊桑和索菲决定留下，随着时间的推移，索菲竟然渐渐地爱上了另一个伊桑。与此同时，伊桑亦开始分辨不清，自己的妻子是否就是那个和自己同床共枕了许多年的枕边人。

　　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.