第一夜

库梅尔·南贾尼：夜间思绪

等待方舟

　　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.

密室绑架

　　两个蒙面人在街上绑架了一个女人并向其索要赎金，他们将她绑了起来并且堵住了她的嘴巴，但这个女人凭借自己有限的力量破坏了绑匪精心策划的计划。

校园往事

　　单纯善良的女主人公（陈梦曦）踏入了渴望已久的美丽高中校园。霸道顽皮的男主人公（陆晨）对陈梦曦一见钟情，因为李子轩是陈梦曦的同桌，而且他与陈梦曦、梁燕形影不离，所以陆晨对李子轩有意见。陆晨与他朋友们经常整蛊欺负李子轩，一次在操场上陆晨和他朋友一起把李子轩给揍了。善良乐于助人的陈梦曦与梁燕知道后，决定帮助他们化解矛盾，通过接触与了解，陆晨与李子轩及陈梦曦、梁燕之间的友谊逐渐形成。一天晚上，梁燕去参加朋友的生日晚会后，被人绑架了，陆晨与陈梦曦、李子轩及他的几个朋友拿钱去解救梁燕，他们与劫匪打了起来，他们全部被劫匪打倒，关键时刻，班主任带保安队长来到，经过一番激烈搏斗，最终保安队长制服了劫匪。