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　　电话公司里有四位全栋大厦闻名的“猪扒”：患罕见脱发症导致头发稀疏的阿Mo（李嘉欣 饰）、荷尔蒙过剩的保安主管苏眉（莫文蔚 饰）、脸上有大块恶心胎记的计算机部员工“态猫”（林熙蕾 饰）、哨牙蒙眼的秘书阿刨（关秀媚 饰）。四个“猪扒”在公司虽然工作努力，但因样子问题经常遭到宣传部主管“妖姬”嘲笑和排挤，四人敢怒不敢言，直到一天公司因经济不景气四人同时遭到了解雇。公司设计师春春（陈小春 饰）可怜四人的遭遇，与细龟和阿伦想出了一条别出心裁的妙计，帮助四人筹款整容。春春的妙计能否凑效，四位“猪扒”又能否咸鱼翻身？

麦哲伦是一位航海家，他秉持人道主义精神和对正义的信仰，反抗国王的权力。然而，当他最终掌管香料舰队，完成首次环球航行后，他的旅程又将如何揭开他自身的谜团呢？

　　在一位塔罗牌占卜师预言了一次偶遇后，肖恩开始相信命运，并为他的爱情生活和事业寻求进一步的建议。

　　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.