美女奉行

故事發生在一座靜謐的南方蔗村，齊齊整整的陳鳳娣（舒淇 飾）和甘耀祖（白客 飾）一家正在等待家庭新成員的誕生， 但一次意外卻打破了原本看起來的寧靜和美好 。在一次次挫折和變故中，陳鳳娣開啟了尋找家人、尋找自我的覺醒之路。

據傳聞，古時候有座山叫猿猴山，猿猴山有一國，名為猿國。猿國有一罕見白猿，猿國尊護白猿為神，稱“猿神”，百姓日夜供奉，祈求平安。近日，有傳言說“猿神”暴怒，不會再庇護猿國了，國主才會久病不起，導致猿國上下人心惶惶。為了穩定民心，猿國國主請求太極村掌門延一道人幫助猿國調查傳言真相，讓百姓心安。延一道人派遣弟子玄城前往猿國協助，探尋背后真相。

　　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.

　　本片改編自民間傳說，幾個世紀以來，在不同的文化背景下，父母都會警告他們的孩子要小心傳說中的Bagman。Bagman會把無辜的孩子抓走，塞進那骯臟腐爛的袋子里，再也沒法回到父母身邊。Patrick McKee小時候曾逃過此劫，但這給他的生活留下了永久的創傷。現在，Bagman又回來了，威脅著他妻子Karina和兒子Jake的安全。