朋友的母亲

　　It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies....

　　从小，楚仁（姜东元 饰）就知道自己拥有能够控制人心的超能力，凡是被他的双眼所正视的人，无一例外的会被迷惑而任其摆布。靠着着神奇的超能力，楚仁得到了一切他想要得到的东西，但人性本就贪婪，个性乖僻的他依然没有感到满足，而是变本加厉的使用这能力干起了犯罪的勾当。　　在一次偷窃行动中，楚仁和名为奎南（高修 饰）的男子相遇了。让楚仁感到震惊的是，这个外表平凡的男子居然没有受到自己的蛊惑，他不仅让行动遭遇了失败，还害自己错手杀死了无辜的人成为了通缉的对象。更让楚仁愤怒的是，不自量力的奎南居然对自己展开了调查。一场猫鼠之间的追逐正式拉开了序幕。

　　张清远死后兰心终日郁郁寡欢，太子误以为她还深爱张清远，嫉妒不已，故意亲近其她妃子来刺激和报复兰心。兰心本已对太子暗生情愫，见状却只能伤怀。 姚芊芊明白了四面楚歌的危险，为保腹中孩子，她四处笼络人心，颇见成效。 王恭妃查出了兰心和张清远的私情，盛怒之下将兰心打入冷宫。太子偷偷潜入冷宫和兰心相见，两人终于明白了对方的深情，情动之下有了一夜温存…… 后来，兰心被诊出怀有身孕，王恭妃却根本不相信这个孩子是太子的……

　　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.