玛丽！玛丽！ Mary! Mary! (1977)

　　春日部防卫队在“春日部儿童娱乐节”舞蹈比赛中，获得胜利，他们因此得到了前往印度的机会。在尽情享受印度旅游的过程中，小新和阿呆进入了一家神秘的杂货店，在那里发现了一个形状像“鼻子”的背包并买下了它。然而，这个背包隐藏着一个非常可怕的秘密。

 故事发生在一列行驶在中国大地的火车上，背景是中国内战时期。黛德丽扮演“上海莉莉”，从事茶花女式的职业。她在列车上跟旧情人邂逅，由此引发出一些故事。对于这位她一直念念不忘的英国军官，她百般示好挑逗，他却妒恨交加，不肯重拾旧爱。在半途被军阀拦检时，他为了阻止军阀对她动手动脚，出手打人；她则为了救他，同意委身军阀。往上海的路上，对生命跟爱情，都是一场严酷的考验。

　　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.

　　小说家丹尼尔（奥斯卡·马丁内兹 Oscar Martínez 饰）从刚出道起事业就顺风顺水，如今更是获得了诺贝尔文学奖的殊荣，攀登上了职业的顶峰，然而这荣誉却并未带给他满足，恰恰相反，丹尼尔担心名声和财富会夺走他文学创作上的灵感与锋芒。　　一晃眼五年过去，丹尼尔热度不减，邀约和奖项不断，可冷淡而又避世的他只教助手一一回绝。一封来自小镇萨拉斯的信吸引了丹尼尔的注意，萨拉斯是他阔别已久的故乡，如今邀请他踏上故土，接受“杰出公民”的奖项，在未告知媒体和朋友们的情况下，丹尼尔独自踏上了返乡的旅途，在那里，他再度见到了曾经的恋人艾琳（安德丽娅·弗里杰里奥 Andrea Frigerio 饰），如今的艾琳早已经嫁为人妻，而她的丈夫正是丹尼尔的旧友安东尼奥（达迪·布列瓦 Dady Brieva 饰）。