妻子的赔偿

　　Three men and a woman crash-land in a deep crater in Antarctica, where they find a prehistoric world.

　　故事发生在未来世界，阿龙（黎明 饰）和阿强（张学友 饰）都是抓捕妖兽的特警队警员，但是上司（袁和平 饰）非常器重阿龙，而对阿强就戒心重重。阿强气不过在酒吧买醉，得到了女友（李若彤 饰）的支持宽慰。然而，他心头总是笼罩着阴影——原来阿强的母亲也是妖兽，后来他把这个隐秘告诉了阿龙。阿龙也坦白了自己跟妖兽幻姬（李嘉欣 饰）的一段感情……　　此后，阿龙在一次抓捕元大宗（仲代达矢 饰）的行动中，重逢了现已成为元妻的幻姬，情急之下却要引出重重误会。其实，元大宗是要跟人类合作的妖兽，但是另有一股液态妖兽正在肆虐地侵袭这个城市。在对抗液态妖兽的过程中，阿龙与幻姬的感情经历了生死的考验，但是元大宗的儿子鬼众道（张耀扬 饰）却设计离间意图消灭人类，与此同时阿强也发现了特警队的叛徒……

　　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.

 本片改编自同名小说，讲述了主人公·梓失去了无可替代的挚友而止步不前，她不断给已故好友发送信息，由此开始，意想不到的邂逅接连发生，形成了一个巨大的圈子…