如狼似虎的花样少妇

　　张清远死后兰心终日郁郁寡欢，太子误以为她还深爱张清远，嫉妒不已，故意亲近其她妃子来刺激和报复兰心。兰心本已对太子暗生情愫，见状却只能伤怀。 姚芊芊明白了四面楚歌的危险，为保腹中孩子，她四处笼络人心，颇见成效。 王恭妃查出了兰心和张清远的私情，盛怒之下将兰心打入冷宫。太子偷偷潜入冷宫和兰心相见，两人终于明白了对方的深情，情动之下有了一夜温存…… 后来，兰心被诊出怀有身孕，王恭妃却根本不相信这个孩子是太子的……

　　一场席卷全球的神秘事件摧毁了所有的电子设备，剥夺了人类的睡眠能力，世界陷入混乱。吉尔（罗德里格兹饰）是一名往事不堪回首的退伍军人，而她的女儿也许是挽救一切的关键。那么问题来了，吉尔能否在失去理智之前安全地护送女儿并拯救世界？

　　故事背景设定在星际殖民的未来时代，神秘的漂泊者赛（凯南鲁兹饰）遇见了为地球外军事承包商艾克索工作的中尉肯恩（丹尼尔麦佛森饰），这对背景南辕北辙的搭档，必须在艾索克掀起的星球危机中，同心协力救出肯恩的小女儿，而为了理念背叛神通广大的艾索克的两人，除了必须面对天罗地网般的追捕，还得战胜游荡在荒芜星球上的野蛮生物。

　　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.