三年不見，女兒發育大爆發

　　The history of the military operation "Bagration", which took place in August 1944.

　　在大雨瓢潑的星期五，帕克夫人（Kassie Wesley DePaiva 飾）突然身體不適，跌倒路旁的水坑中痛苦死去。該事件給她的家人以不小的打擊，三個孩子伊莉絲（安拜·柴爾德斯 Ambyr Childers 飾）、蘿絲（朱莉婭·加納 Julia Garner 飾）和羅瑞（Jack Gore 飾）憂傷不已，男主人弗蘭克（比爾·薩奇 Bill Sage 飾）卻似乎格外震驚。在孩子們的眼里，爸爸是至高無上權力的象征，女孩們渴望像同齡人一樣快樂自由成長，卻無奈必須服從爸爸的命令?；\罩在淡淡悲傷中的帕克家，隱藏著令人不敢直視的恐怖秘密，一本日記揭示著家族注定被詛咒的命運和歷史。　　與此同時，小鎮周圍的人口失蹤事件和意外被洪水沖出的手指骨，引起了有心人的關注，帕克家的秘密即將大白天下……

　　一名播客在尋找有關他妹妹死亡的線索時，進入了暗網，在那里發現了“THE MURDERSHOW”，在這個網站上，最高的加密貨幣出價者可以選擇如何殺死受害者，如果你在看著他們，他們也在看著你。

　　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.