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.
不错的圣诞小鸡电影。改编版baby it’s cold outside还不错。
A disaster. 努力地往一个爆米花电影的模式上嵌套，好像什么都有了，男女主一开始的误会、将错就错、小高潮、欢乐大结局……但是每一步都是拙劣的模仿。笑话也不好笑，Jimmy doesn’t seem like have any facial expressions.
Nina Dobrev还是那么美😍Darren Barnet已经变成chick flick hot guy专业户了吗哈哈 鬼知道最后致敬love actually那一段我哭得有多惨😭ps.美国人真的11月开始过圣诞🎄实锤 pss.真正的幸福是从爱自己开始的（百说不腻的鸡汤
这个hard真的不是hard to watch的意思？
看nina和jimmy o yang亲亲我和我的朋友大喊oh no！真的太违和了
实在是太粗糙了，毫无逻辑可言，女主的穿搭和男主的演技还不错吧
圣诞节全家欢爆米花电影(*๓´╰╯`๓)♡ 如sex and city 自我吐槽式开头， 套路的爱情故事。
因为silicon valley而喜欢上这个亚洲段子手，但竟在最后一个香甜的吻的镜头不出所料的跳戏了：ehhhh心疼nina五分钟。
I don’t but it at all
jimmy去学个表演吧。。。也不能老是面瘫一招鲜啊。。。
周五下午想看一部轻松的无脑片快落一下，选对了。
对圣诞合家欢就不要这么苛刻了，tinder版Love Actually，单身狗也想有这么奇妙的爱情（擦泪）
活着见到nina新电影了…有点过于美好的故事，有些戏剧性也很那个，但是很温馨，主角演技很细腻看得很舒服…偶尔还是要靠点幻想故事温暖生活呀
中规中矩的爱情喜剧，从海报可以看出结局的那种。加一星给josh改良版的not so rapey 的歌😂
因为觉得这部片子不够现实而打低分的人，难道真的认为这部片子想讲的东西是不好的吗？觉得这部片子没有探讨真正亚裔问题的，难道真觉得这部片子做的努力是错的吗。起码它努力了。而这些人只会对着别人的努力倒竖拇指罢了。
演技无法更差了 感觉总体评分应该少于6才是
同样是Christmas cliché，比隔壁的撞号姐妹片还是好很多的。欧阳万成有毒哦，他怎么跟谁都好有cp感！awwwwwww
一眼就能猜到结局，catfish歪打正着的真爱故事，personality > looks but without the looks who wants to know your personality
提前看了圣诞电影！哈哈哈哈 真爱一定是灵魂的碰撞而不仅仅是肉体的迷恋！找一个灵魂伴侣对我而言太重要了 所以一直还在期待着♡
运动美男有他特别的讨喜，单纯得和他喜欢的Thoreau一样。比了这种Life in the woods的透明感，丑男的解语、解意、幽默感也有重量，不过是沉淀渣滓。说男人要懂文学，就仿佛赞美一个速冻鸡胸肉丸子，说它看起来有水头有油性。真可爱的男人决不用功要做成才子，他只需人性化地热爱运动、海滩、声浪、增肌和性感。
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