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 1951年，英國(guó)鄉(xiāng)村邊緣，德盧斯家族的莊園已在歲月中斑駁頹敗。11歲的弗拉維亞·德盧斯，是家族里最離經(jīng)叛道的孩子——她癡迷化學(xué)，尤其精通毒藥，更有著超越年齡的偵探天賦。當(dāng)一具陌生尸體出現(xiàn)在莊園的庭院中，她的父親哈維蘭上校成了警方的頭號(hào)嫌疑人。為了洗刷父親的冤屈，弗拉維亞拿起放大鏡與化學(xué)試劑，在老宅的藏書(shū)室、實(shí)驗(yàn)室與莊園的隱秘角落中展開(kāi)調(diào)查。她周旋于警探、古怪的家族成員與小鎮(zhèn)居民之間，在層層迷霧中探尋真相，而隨著調(diào)查深入，她也逐漸揭開(kāi)了家族隱藏多年的秘密。

　　根據(jù)約瑟夫和麗貝卡·鮑在普拉佐集中營(yíng)的婚禮被斯皮爾伯格的辛德勒名單紀(jì)念的真實(shí)故事改編。Bau，《戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中的藝術(shù)家》是一部戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)劇/愛(ài)情故事/間諜故事，在這個(gè)幸存者正在死亡、大屠殺正在從記憶中消失的時(shí)代需要講述。約瑟夫在營(yíng)地里運(yùn)用他的藝術(shù)技巧，活了下來(lái)，幫助數(shù)百人逃走。奇跡般地，他在絕望中找到了愛(ài)。一種將持續(xù)一生的愛(ài)。幾年后，當(dāng)他被傳喚為殘酷的納粹軍官受審的關(guān)鍵證人時(shí)，他被重新帶回了大屠殺的生動(dòng)記憶中。納粹軍官折磨了他并殺害了他的父親?，F(xiàn)在，他呼吁這種愛(ài)和精神的韌性來(lái)面對(duì)他過(guò)去的終極惡魔。

　　時(shí)空的轉(zhuǎn)換，現(xiàn)在與未來(lái)的穿梭，都在杰克（亞德里安·布洛迪 Adrien Brody 飾）身上神奇的發(fā)生著。他本來(lái)是一個(gè)參與過(guò)海灣戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的美國(guó)軍人。意外中彈令他喪失了記憶，成為一個(gè)失憶者。繼而更倒霉的是，他被警方認(rèn)作殺人疑犯拉回審訊。因?yàn)榕卸榫窦膊?，杰克免于坐牢，只是被帶到精神病院，作為某?xiàng)科學(xué)實(shí)驗(yàn)的樣品?！　♂t(yī)生為杰克穿上了緊身衣物，把他放進(jìn)停尸間。這里黑暗冰冷，只剩下零散的記憶碎片陪伴杰克。碎片中有著他將來(lái)的模樣，有著一個(gè)心愛(ài)的叫杰基（凱拉·奈特利 Keira Knightley飾）的女子，更有著自己快要死去的訊息。在記憶中看到將來(lái)的杰克，在一線希望中尋找著通往生機(jī)的鑰匙。

　　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.