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.
欧阳 Jimmy ！ way to go!
虽然是加上了圣诞元素的爆米花电影，但是还是值得看。
的确很多女孩子喜欢欧阳这种外表一般但是暖暖的男的
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。
三十年河东三十年河西，jing yang都开始拍爱情片啦
咋说呢？我还是挺喜欢的这个反正。追求真爱嘛。没有一个坏人的故事。男主欺骗女主用的是照片，但是之后的聊天思考陪伴都是真的啊。而女主骗男二可是totally虚假的爱好。所以是女主求原谅没啥问题。但是男主真的不好看。明明爸爸妈妈哥哥都好看，怎么就男主不好看。
最后模仿love actually那里还是俗气地被感动到了…是一个细想很丧的故事：如果josh不伪造profile，natalie根本就不会滑他，他和natalie根本就不会有开始的机会，哪怕他们灵魂一万分的契合。有点担心欧阳万成的精神状态…有点理解他移民美国后经历了什么了。但即使作为边缘亚裔男性，他依然可以在his rock bottom选择blame women…女主结尾独自站出来澄清真相和道歉确实看得不舒服
#15 超出预期诶，是很cliche很cheesy很fairy tale了，但，年关将近，这样焦糖味的电影就不能合适更多～🍻
默契点加分+
整个剧情让人迷惑 欺骗得到的爱情 还要女生say sorry…
真的好尴尬好笑，但爱情之处又不缺乏严肃的部分！
两点：1）什么样的神经病才会在profile上放自己拿斧子和大粗绳子的照片；2）老板问“you run at the very first sign of imperfection, why didn’t you run?” 这还不简单吗，她跑到pub里结果过敏差点去世，所以女主的确跑了，是机缘巧合没跑成。有点俗是真的不过有些情节还是蛮好的，改编的歌不错，Saito看着就是个好爸爸。
记得标记想看的时候还没有评分，大概是加入豆瓣十年来第一次不带着先入为主的预期轻轻松松欣赏一部电影。仍然愿意给个高分。两个主角都比较饱满，揭示了互联网时代慢慢品尝爱、领悟爱的真谛的道理，还致敬了我最爱的真爱至上。
大数据电影 看开头就能猜中结尾的那种 每个角色都好典型哈哈
jesus，欧阳万成很可爱啊，把亚洲人特有的自负内向腼腆演活了！
艰难地看了半小时并不是很看得下去 且把darren barnet拍丑了 我直接放弃
两星半，剧情很老套，女主相貌变化好大，跟吸血鬼日记的时候判若两人，男主的造型也是一言难尽，给结尾致敬《真爱至上》加半星
看封面以为男一是配角，没想到真是主角啊！随着剧情的推进也不觉得那么违和了，性格占了主要优势，蛮可爱的电影
很假，但挺可爱的。主要nina 真是穿啥都好看！
有的桥段挺搞笑，但是感觉整部片就是为了结尾“致敬”，细节经不起琢磨，真较真起来得骂男主。
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