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 19世纪热情洋溢的墨西哥小镇，吉普赛女郎叶塞尼亚（杰奎琳·安德瑞 Jacqueline Andere 饰）和伙伴们畅快淋漓歌舞，她高傲聪慧，宛若一株带刺的玫瑰，由于时常遭到白人的歧视，因此叶塞尼亚偶尔会偷钱惩治这帮势力眼，却不知道自己拥有怎样曲折的身世。某天，叶塞尼亚在酒馆算命，结识了自信满满的白人军官奥斯瓦尔多（Jorge Lavat 饰）。一来二去的交往，这对有情男女坠入爱河。爱情的甜蜜与苦涩，令他们饱受折磨。勇敢的奥斯瓦尔多请求吉普赛头人同意他们的结合，在叶塞尼亚外婆的点拨和撮合下，这个狂野女郎最终如愿和奥斯瓦尔多结为夫妇。幸福总是短暂易逝，叶塞尼亚和丈夫迎来了长时间的生离死别，他们的爱情也经历了严峻的考验……

　　魔术师社长杜新月一直想要得到业内早已经失传的传奇魔术秘笈《三式详解》，然而拥有该秘籍的童铁却拒绝将它交给心术不正的杜新月。愤怒之中，杜新月买通了童铁的助手，让她在童铁表演逃脱魔术的道具上做了手脚，导致童铁在表演过程中惨死。不仅如此，他们还继续迫害知道秘籍下落的童铁的儿子童行。　　根据父亲留下的项链，童行来到了龙泉寺，在那里的方丈将《三式详解》交给了他，可就在这个节骨眼上，一直尾随童行的方教授现身抢走了秘籍，然而螳螂捕蝉黄雀在后，杜新月紧随其后打倒了方教授，试图抢夺秘籍，最终会鹿死谁手呢？

　　故事发生在2050年，蓝小玮是一个研究员，她研发了“零接触”的技术--通过佩戴特殊的头盔，将两个人的脑电波连接起来实现梦境的连接。这天，一个便衣警探余警官找到研究所，要求小玮使用零接触的技术帮他侦破一个极为棘手的案件。小玮觉得这案件跟母亲的昏迷案件有关，尽管知道危险，还是不听父亲的阻止，接受这个任务了。小玮通过网络连接的方式进入昏迷者易田的梦境，随后捣蛋的余警官也偷偷尾随而来，两人在这个奇怪的世界跌跌撞撞，搞笑百出，也危险重重，两人配合警探父亲，终于找到真凶竟然就是实验室的研究员，至此故事告一段落。

　　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.