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　　城市最大的参行被盗，价值千万的野山参瞬间下落不明。推销员马有才事事都晚半拍，他为筹集一笔资金，铤而走险变成了一个空有盗窃名头的盗窃人。主犯“独眼”处心积虑想把同伙灭口却不幸丧命。萧文欲在盗窃人参计划中获利，却偶遇苦寻的女友的未婚夫曹丰。案件在警官许峰的层层追查下更加扑朔迷离。人性的深情相付和铤而走险，让所有人的关系和命运错综复杂......

　　丹麦悬疑犯罪片，该片刷新丹麦国产片票房纪录，是系列电影《悬案密码》的第四部，也是最终章，《悬案密码》系列改编自丹麦小说家尤西·阿德勒-奥尔森（JussiAdler-Olsen）的同名小说，

　　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.

　　清朝末年，欧洲足球队海盗队来华时和驻华外国使馆联队进行了一场比赛。比赛引来了大批民众和朝廷官员观看，海盗队获胜后，队长哈里为博取女友詹尼一笑，竟然用力将球踢向围观的群众和朝廷官员。就在一众外国人哈哈大笑之时，人群中窜出一名大汉，他叫周天（张丰毅 饰），他以高强的球技回敬了哈里。詹尼见此教唆哈里向中方挑战，于是一场中外足球赛大战在即。原来周天是一位曾留学牛津大学并曾担任清朝翰林院编修的进步青年，他深知中、外足球水平的据，单凭一己之力很难为中国人出一口气。于是，周天踏上了访寻民间球侠、为国增光的道路。