治愈營：一個世界

　　熱愛搖滾樂，一心想贏得大賽的阿比阿弟不小心被另一對長得一模一樣的阿比阿弟機器推冥界。在他們大鬧陰曹地府、暢游天堂之后還拖著死神回到陽世，拯救女友的性命···節奏強烈的熱門歌曲、地獄游歷的驚險怪譚，還有一對胡搞蠻纏的活寶兄弟，就已經使「阿」片夠新鮮熱鬧了，再加上導演創新的拍攝手法，許多趣味的橋段串連，使本片不論在視覺效果、技術處理上皆比上集精進，娛樂效果更有過之而無不及。

本片改編自足立紳同名小說，電影版是包括未公開場景的導演剪輯版本。年過40卻依然不受歡迎的編劇、沒有收入的廢柴丈夫·柳田豪太（風間俊介 飾），與吃軟飯一樣的丈夫和兒子一起維持生活、拒絕丈夫的邀請、還破口大罵的可怕妻子·柳田千花（MEGUMI 飾），兩人之間展開了又笑又哭的夫婦故事。

經歷了一件令人不安的事后，伊馮娜驅車前往朋友卡米爾位于田園詩般的新家，想在那里待一段時間。卡米爾的兩個新朋友A.J.和艾薩克熱情地接待了她，他們或許也住在那里。大家約定周末一起享用用當地新鮮食材烹制的家常菜，并在燭光下玩一些室內游戲。然而，當伊馮娜被蜱蟲叮咬后出現令人不安的癥狀時，這片寧靜的鄉村天堂瞬間消失，取而代之的是滋生令人不安的新生命的溫床。

　　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.