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日军侵华，陈春生目睹父亲惨死刀下，执念驱使他不顾母亲哀求，深夜偷跑参军，立誓抗日救国，再回家乡。他在战场浴血成长，终见山河光复，然而内战打响，拖慢了他回乡的脚步。陈春生拒绝向同胞举枪，沦为逃兵被关押，1949年被强行运往台湾。在台数十年，他漂泊无依，虽遇良伴组建新家，却始终被思乡之苦煎熬。两岸三通后，他竟得知母亲仍在等他，八十三岁的他飞奔回乡，与百岁母亲相认，这份迟到71年的承诺，终在生命尽头圆满。

　　在阳光明媚的日子里，灰太狼突然闯入羊村，虽然他被小羊羊们击退，却把村长的变身魔毯打劫回去。表现英勇的喜羊羊受到伙伴们的称赞，而懒羊羊对此反而有些愤愤不平。为了证明自己的实力，他将慢羊羊的时空照相机错认为手枪，将其偷走后闯入狼堡。得知消息的喜羊羊匆匆赶去营救，结果在混乱之中被卷入时空乱流回到了远古时代，灰太狼和懒羊羊更被魔毯互换了身体。灰太狼无意中被原始羊的千金相为驸马，懒羊羊则成为几只笨狼的首领。　　可怕的是有一条能把任何生物变成石头的恶龙肆虐，为了保卫原始时代的朋友们，喜羊羊他们携手挑战恶龙，懒羊羊更成为了足以改变历史的英雄人物……

　　因神秘塔罗牌的指引，那群用魔术“替天行盗”的骑士们杀回来了！“初代四骑士”与三位新生代魔术师携手，目标直指一位钻石大亨——其家族凭借庞大资本与隐秘势力，构建了全球性犯罪网络，也为骑士团布下层层陷阱！面对史上最难的“盗窃任务”，骑士们再现奇迹，上演横跨全球的魔术大秀，与“血色钻石家族”展开骗中骗、局中局、计中计的巅峰博弈……

　　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.