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.

 影片由一系列音樂片斷構成，由擅長歌舞巨片的馬克·桑德里區執導。其中每一首插曲都以美國的節假日為線索，又都巧妙地集中到一對情敵的身上。本片獲1943年第15屆奧斯卡最佳編劇和最佳音樂獎提名！一家開設在公路邊的旅館，兩個年輕的合伙人哈迪和海諾沃同時愛上了一位姑娘。海諾沃（由著名舞蹈家弗雷德·阿斯泰爾飾）盡管在愛情的追逐中連連占先，但最終還是敗給了哈迪（由著名歌星賓·克羅斯比飾）。哈迪是位酷愛音樂的懶散的人，他退休回到新英格蘭農村，每逢節假日，他的農場就成了娛樂總會……

　　肥招（曾志偉 飾）和凡秋（陳勛奇 飾）是一對從小一起長大的好朋友，但兩人的性格卻大不相同，肥招老實木訥，凡秋則浮華招搖。因投資不善，凡秋被高利貸逼得走投無路，幸虧有好友相助，才得以在肥招家中暫時棲身。此前肥招家里住著一個離家出走的叛逆少女阿君（陳淑蘭 飾），凡秋隨她出席某酒會，認識了美貌和財富并重的美女保蓮（楊寶玲 飾）。以此為契機，他的事業初見起色，隨后更和文靜賢淑的女友莎莉（張敏 飾）分手，與保蓮墜入愛河?！　×硪环矫妫π哽t腆的肥招也開始喜歡上莎莉，在阿君的參謀下，他向這個失意的女子展開了感情攻勢……

　　美國海軍上校尼爾遜（沃爾特皮金飾）領導潛艇海景號在北極下探測時，地球突生危機，大氣層被一股大火燃燒，令地球極速升溫，地球上干旱無雨，頓誠人間煉獄?？茖W家主張紛歧，尼爾遜決定由海景號發射核子飛彈，讓其在大氣層外爆炸以期熄滅大火，令地球降溫。為求能夠快速解決這個問題，尼爾遜毅然由船員自愿選擇是留在船上還是繼續前進，但是在全世界都沒有辦法的情況下，只有聽命于尼爾遜的這個計劃了……