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　　A large villa belonging to a collector that is about to be restored into a museum traps project workers who are carrying out a survey. A curse is released, killing the humans inside one by one

　　由21 个闹剧穿插一部科幻短片组成的闹剧，导演罗伯特（《怪异的阿尔 杨克维奇》）、约翰（《动物屋》）等等都是环球影片公司的一线导演，他们的共同特点就是在搞怪搞笑方面各有绝招。这些短片大都是对美国夜间电视节目和低成本科幻片的戏仿，故事包括一个男子受到他所住的房子攻击、一场由喜剧演员主持的葬礼和被吸进电视机里的人等等。　　眼花缭乱 满嘴放炮

　　在现代都市里，居然出了奇怪的大事。某日从天降下一位怪人，而且自称财仙（谭咏麟），为了逃避群众追赶，而凑巧遇上了茶室老板及其女儿爱玲、儿子彬彬。随即他变被打扮成时代青年财仙，替老板解决了不少难题，更积极传播真理，让身边的人人都能幸福快乐。后来，财仙为救汽车失事的爱玲，使用法力抢救但似的自己变成凡人。而后更遭太空署人员围捕，幸得众人齐心救援，方才遇难呈祥、逢凶化吉。　　香港天皇级的歌手谭咏麟早期80年代的电影作品。谭咏麟虽然凭《假如我是真的》夺得第十八届金马奖男主角，但是要数出他的代表作也不容易。因为他所主演的片子大多走搞笑路线，观众大多笑完即止。不过其中《小生怕怕》、《少爷威威》、《恭喜发财》也算得上当时优秀的喜剧作品，而且对于在乐坛上作全力冲刺的谭咏麟来说，能出演40多部电影，也可算是一个神话。延续了此前《小生怕怕》、《少爷威威》等片的商业热力，本片推出后也大获成功，赢得了接近两千万的高票房，站到了年度卖座电影的前五名之内。故事的结局和所有的贺岁片如出一辙，同样是皆大欢喜。乐呵呵的看完电影，但演员们的精彩表现还是让人津津乐道，至今翻看起来仍旧能回味无穷。

　　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.