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 一九二九年，馮家寶帶著國民黨的使命由上海來到瓷城，一 面偵察共產黨的活動，一面搜刮陶瓷珍品。陶瓷工人程瑞生專會 燒制中外馳名的祭紅，他將自己唯一的女兒瑩童許給徒弟紅宇為 妻。三人一起過著貧困的生活。馮家寶想用祭紅向國外換取軍火，來鎮壓革命力量。但是， 程瑞生拒絕為他燒制祭紅。后來徐紅宇參加了游擊隊和隊長周丹 一起在瓷城組織工人罷工，抗捐抗稅。馮家寶鎮壓工人運動，殺 害了徐紅宇。已懷孕的徐妻在找游擊隊的途中被捕。程瑞生也因 敵人搶走了宣德祭紅大瓶，含恨出走。徐妻在獄中生一女，不久 又被押往上海。周丹率游擊隊打進瓷城，在獄中救出并收養了徐 女，也取名瑩童。解放后，周丹已是陶瓷研究所的黨委書記，女孩當了新一代 的陶瓷工人。一天周丹帶瑩童為徐紅宇掃墓時，巧遇程瑞生，程 收瑩童為徒。正當程瑞生燒出真正的祭紅美人肩大瓶，實現了幾 十年的宿愿時，他的女兒突然到來。原來徐妻被押往上海途中， 乘機打死馮家寶并參加了游擊隊，解放后被派往國外工作。此時 她看到周瑩童身上佩帶的祭紅小龍，認出她是自己的女兒，于是 祖孫三代團聚。

　　Molly Dunn（Jhey Castles 飾）從小熱愛地理，她曾在半夜做實驗鬧得家人不得安寧，但是她并不是一個十分幸運的孩子，父親很早就死于一場地震災害中。長大后Molly成為了一名地質學家，在一所大學教書，某天她正在做一項預測地震的試驗，安放在各處的傳感器數據顯示即將會有一場大地震發生，她必須通知所有人撤離，但是她的力量實在太薄弱了，并沒有人愿意聽信她的預測，地震如期而至，她只有與時間賽跑，盡可能的拯救更多的人。

　　3年前，話劇老師林曉陽（林嘉欣飾）的弟弟被綁架，案件交由高級督察何宛真（劉若英飾）及智叔（張兆輝飾）負責，可是在追捕的過程中，疑犯因爭吵墜樓身亡，林曉陽就此埋下了怨恨。　　三年后，林曉陽患病的丈夫（趙會南飾）病情加重，需要一千萬才能有治好的希望，林曉陽動了綁架富豪王森（郭 濤飾）兒子的念頭。多日來林曉陽跟她從尼泊爾認識的同伙跟蹤小孩動向，后來決定在一個傍晚下手。剛好案子也是有何宛真接手，就讓林曉陽有了報復的心理，何宛真為了救回孩子只好服從，可她萬萬沒有想到，原來王森的兒子，跟自己的兒子調換了衣服穿，被林曉陽綁架的正是何宛真的兒子。　　兩個女人，都為著心愛的親人在綁架案中斗志斗勇，展開激烈的較量。

　　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.