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1990年代末，六口之家遷居溫哥華島新居。幼女薩沙的視角中，家庭裂痕漸顯——當長子杰里米日益危險的行徑撕裂平靜，這場始于海岸的新生，終成困于藍鷺沼澤的家族寓言。

 故事發生在美國西部大開發時期，燕西（理查德·迪克斯 Richard Dix 飾）帶著妻子莎布拉（艾琳·鄧恩 Irene Dunne 飾）千里昭昭來到了廣袤而又荒蕪的俄克納馬拉，心里懷揣著遠大的理想，希望能夠在這里做出一番建樹。俄克納馬拉的生活環境十分艱苦和險峻，然而，夫妻兩人同心協力，慢慢改善和建立著他們的家園。在日子漸漸穩定的過程中，在當地生活的牧場主們感到他們的利益受到了侵犯，他們常常會找燕西的麻煩，卻又被燕西用智慧巧妙的化解。燕西十分同情在當地生活的印第安土著，與此同時，嫉惡如仇的燕西亦對壓迫和剝削原住民的資本家們充滿了仇恨，隨著時間的推移，雙方的矛盾漸漸尖銳起來。

　　影片講述的是一位新媽媽 Mary （克里斯蒂·柏克 飾）保護新生兒 Adam（Grace Christensen 飾）的故事。Mary 生了一對雙胞胎，但其中只有 Adam 存活了下來。在照顧 Adam 的過程中她瘋狂地認為有某種超自然的實體在不惜任何代價地把 Adam 從她身邊帶走。

　　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.