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兩個黑幫大佬和他心愛的女人，度過人生中最玩命的一夜求生戰。一部“時光機”的出現，令這一夜瞬間變成時空錯亂的鬧劇……

　　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.

　　《透明人與蠅男 》是由村山三男導演的特攝科幻電影。一個發現可以把人變成和蒼蠅一樣大小的藥品的男人，開始對給自己安上戰犯的罪的人復仇。某個物理學家為了從蠅男的恐怖中拯救人們決心成為透明人。

　　跨國投資銀行香港高層約翰收到勒索電郵，如不按指示三日內交出約十九萬港幣，有關臺灣科網龍頭公司之機密融資分析就會被公開。為了公司聲譽，也為免客戶股價大幅波動，約翰暗中找來昔日大學舍堂堂友兼刑警唐輔協助調查。　　機密融資分析由約翰四位下屬負責，其中牧野一度失蹤，嫌疑極大。發現檔案在內聯網被偷之小儒，因曾向電腦部職員阿植求救，結果整個團隊連阿植六人，都被約翰安排到附近一間貴賓公寓套房，接受唐輔以至其手下全天候監視，直至完成贖金交易。　　由于贖金奇少，綁匪顯然志不在錢，其多個古怪指示更令人困惑。當阿植協助追蹤綁匪電郵源頭時，竟發現電郵是由公司伺服器發出，換言之綁匪必有內應。其后電郵證實來自阿植手機，縱然他在早上已遺失手機，而最后是小儒接觸他手機，阿植依然百詞莫辨。　　唐輔發現阿植家庭背景殊不簡單，疑似內應之神秘人又頻頻現身，加上科網公司原來曾有高層因新一代網上平臺開發延誤而被迫離職，甚至行蹤成疑，這一切都有關連嗎？　　由開發延誤導致融資失敗，由此可能觸發新一輪全球股災，到最后綁匪竟要求用約翰用網上拍賣繳交贖款，究竟唐輔這一代會明白新一代的上網心態嗎？不了解又能否替約翰低調破案？阿植又可會知道誰是真兇？以至真兇為何要陷害他嗎？　　綁匪背后真正動機又是什麼？