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　　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.

　　威尼斯的地平線單元中，出現了這樣一部電影，不扯人性，“三觀”卻正到讓人大呼過癮，這就是講述了一個干脆利落的復仇故事的西班牙電影《遲來的憤怒》。　　影片講述了一個男人為了替在搶劫案中慘死的女友和變成植物人的老爸報仇，潛伏八年，甚至睡了搶劫團伙司機的孩子他媽，只為等他出獄，威脅他，順藤摸瓜找到躲藏起來的真兇們，一個一個復仇。

全片AIGC全程創制，以新國風 AI 視覺重構封神經典。影片講述了冀州侯之女蘇小妹被迫入宮和親，卻在途中遭九尾狐妖奪舍，從此與狐妖共用一具身體、形成“一體雙魂”的宿命糾纏。白日里，蘇小妹尚能短暫清醒，試圖阻止狐妖禍亂朝綱；入夜后，狐妖則借妲己之身迷惑紂王，挑動酷刑、陷害忠良，一步步將大商推向崩塌。隨著姜皇后、比干、蘇全忠等人相繼卷入這場人妖共體的陰謀，蘇小妹在親情、國仇與自我犧牲之間被迫抉擇，而一心求仙的狐妖也在與紂王的糾纏中逐漸動搖。當天命、情愛與罪孽交織，真正的妲己究竟是誰？商朝的覆滅，是妖狐的算計，還是命運早已注定的結局？    

　　幸福的三口之家，可愛的小女孩亞美卻經常對著空氣說話，并言稱有一個無依無靠的小弟弟跟在身邊。她的舉止令父母非常擔心，而詭異的事件也相繼發生。亞美的媽媽小萍是一所高中的老師，她的學生阿波與關兒相戀。青春男女愛火正熾，無所顧忌，終于令關兒不慎懷孕。為了免去負擔與壓力，關兒最終找到無照女醫引產，這也正是他們痛苦的開始。另有一美貌女明星，適值人氣下滑，而她又因不負責任的男友不斷懷孕，人生漸漸陷入困境?！　≡谶@些所謂時尚男女的附近，寂寞冷清的寺院內痛苦悲傷的嬰靈無助哀號。各人欠債各人還，以殺生換取的幸福終究帶著濃濃的血腥……