朱利安（皮尔斯·布鲁斯南饰）的职业特殊又平凡，青青青国特殊是因为他是一名业界的顶级杀手，青青青国平凡在于朱利安对于自己这份很有前途的职业早已经无比厌倦，不断的杀戮让他的人性所剩无几，而对于自己危险的现状，朱利安感到担心又不安。这一次，朱利安来到了墨西哥，他要完成他的又一个任务。一次偶然中，朱利安在墨西哥的酒吧里结识了名叫丹尼（格雷戈·金尼尔饰）的男子，丹尼是一个本分的生意人，和妻子在丹佛过着平静的生活，此次来到墨西哥是为了谈一笔生意以及挽救他和妻子之间的感情危机。在得知了朱利安的真实身份后，丹尼居然对此表示了极大的兴趣，而对于丹尼正常的人生轨迹，朱利安也十分羡慕，一段意外的友谊在两人之间展开。
回复 :故事背景设定在一个虚构的近未来社会，居民的婚恋受到严格控制管理。根据规定，单身者要被集中移送到一个酒店里，他们必须要在45天之内找到一个匹配的伴侣，失败者会被转化为一种自选的动物，并被流放到森林中。为了延长45天的期限，酒店里的单身者们还会到森林里狩猎其他逃亡的单身者。本片的主人公大卫（柯林·法瑞尔 Colin Farrell 饰）与一批单身者一同被送到酒店，他忍受着这里的各种严苛规定，同时也积极在酒店提供的各式各样的相亲场合中寻找伴侣。眼看期限将至，大卫还没有找到合适的伴侣。尝试和一个女人配对失败后，他逃到了酒店外面的森林，逃亡的单身者居住的地方。然而，在这个单身者反抗酒店制度的栖息地里，又有着另一套截然不同的制度……
回复 :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.
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