激情驚爆點

　　20世紀70年代，在日本中小學生中間流傳著這樣一個恐怖的傳說：放學獨自走到公園附近時，會遇到一個帶著白色口罩、穿紅色風衣的女人。遇到路過者，她會摘下口罩，露出裂到耳朵的恐怖大嘴，問對方“我漂亮嗎？”如回答不漂亮，她會將對方毀容；若回答漂亮，她就將對方變得和自己一樣；如果逃跑，她會以極快的速度追上。這個女人的名字就叫：裂口女。　　各學校一時間人心惶惶，男女學生們都怕碰到這個可怕的女人，而大人們卻對這個謠言嗤之以鼻。但隨著一場不詳的地震發生，裂口女終于到來……

　　俠盜“一枝花”專劫富濟貧故為人欽佩，卻因正義感得罪了一名蛇蝎美人，該女子名叫“仇女”雖嫁與一土豪“孤寒財主”為妾但始終不忘被“一枝花”所辱，誓必要將“一枝花”置于死地。“一枝花”浪跡江湖，但“仇女”并未因而放過他，反而更誣造許多盜竊案令官方大舉追緝之。其時江湖上出現兩個小人物，一肥一瘦，肥名“脹爆”為人憨直，因仰慕“一枝花”而喜扮大俠，瘦名“扭紋柴”常自作聰明經常撞板，喜占小便宜，為了官方之花紅到處找尋“一枝花”，而偶遇上“脹爆”后來反成莫逆之交，兩人更結伴一同尋找“一枝花”……

　　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.

　　這是一部寓言般，反浪漫的公路電影，男青年瓦爾特是個裁縫，每天幫著母親縫制衣服，可是他向往外面的世界，于是他乘著母親不備將母親鎖進屋子并偷了母親的錢物找了一個哥們駕車兜風，在路上遇見了來旅游的泰欣娜和其女友，他們四人結伴而行，沉默寡言的兩個男人和隨心所欲的兩個女人產生許多 戲劇沖突，他們一起住店，一起聽搖滾音樂會，折騰許久以后，瓦爾特決定回家，回家后他若無其事地坐回縫紉機邊繼續他的裁縫生涯，仿佛一切未曾發生過。