奸臣

　　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.

 外表平平的金哲秀（薛景求 飾）是大韓民國的一名身懷絕技、勇武干練的特工，但在日常生活中他偽裝身份，連妻子英熙（文素麗 飾）也對其真身一無所知。在老婆面前，他是唯唯諾諾，毫無氣場的普通上班族。哲秀就在危險和平凡中小心翼翼保持平衡。某天，即將參加六方會談的朝鮮代表白武鎮乘坐的飛機被恐怖分子擊落。由于該次會議事關重大，影響著南北統一和放棄核武的協議簽訂，因此韓方派出金哲秀和搭檔們去泰國營救白武鎮擁有豐富核武制造經驗的女兒白雪希。與此同時，身為空姐的英熙在和丈夫吵完架后飛赴海外，途中邂逅了英俊帥氣的男子萊恩，殊不知此人正是暗殺白武鎮的冷血殺手。危機重重的泰國，金秀哲經歷著來自國家和家庭的嚴峻考驗……

　　一名科學家在實驗中不小心沾到了一種具有快速成長特性的化學液體，不久，他就變成了半人半獸的水怪。這時，野心分子也想獲得這種具有快速成長特性的化學液體的秘密公式，他們遂派員追殺持有科學家記事本的電子專家。后來他們發現了這名科學家的下落，終于在沼澤區這幫野心分子跟科學家變成的水怪展開了決斗。這是一部滑稽可笑的科幻動作片，水怪的化妝和服裝都顯得愚笨而不能入信，對白亦平淡乏味，整部影片露出了低成本制作的粗糙感

 獲獎：1943年奧斯卡最佳劇本獎介紹：二戰初期，一艘毀壞的潛水艇擱淺在加拿大海灣。狂熱的納粹船長和他的全體船員必須抵達當時中立的美國，否則他們要被捉拿。一路上他們遇上形形色色的人物，對戰爭和愛國主義抱著各自的態度。在本片中導演鮑威爾和演員艾默力．皮斯伯格針對美國參加同盟國對抗納粹的原因而展現出他們獨特的觀點。