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.
看的时候就感觉好像不是一个独立的电影，看完了才知道原来是剧集的剧场版，不过也不太影响对电影的理解了，但是看到最后还是觉得人类太自私了，包括这个结尾，因为这里本来就是巨魔的领地，人类后来来到这里组建了城市并开始扩张，不但占了人家的地盘，还把人家的孩子往外赶，把人家的妈妈直接困在城市下面了，囚禁在下面了基本上是，最后的结局居然是就这么困着了，一年开放一次探亲日还觉得自己很伟大，人类就应该搬走，把人家妈妈放出来，放出来你们再回来重建家园都可以，太自私了。
把一个简单的亲情故事复杂化，又把一个已然复杂化的人情社会、政治世界、自我认知、文明与自然冲突的故事简单化。
很多人不喜欢的原因，未必是它裹着喜剧的皮儿，骨子里是一出彻头彻尾的大闹剧大悲剧，而是在这出剧里看见了自己。以及，我感受到了编导演那种叶已气急败坏了的悲怆和绝望
像个正常日剧而不是好像拍出来只是为了卖玩具和皮套可以说进步巨大。。。
自Seth Rogen帮James Franco的电影"interview"(赐刹今症嗯)以来最恶搞了
天呐这部让我感觉我像在看牙狼，中间的剧情一度很压抑，我哭的好大声！！
依旧治愈，夜晚的画面好舒服。移城吧，让巨魔妈妈跟孩子们重聚。“母爱不应被视为当然”
脱离了子供向，有很多值得深思的地方，爱死了爱死了
又美丽又孤独的故事，最后的神山老师那无与伦比的神性让他孤僻得闪闪发光
黑政府和娱乐至死的主题实在不新了，1997年就有《摇尾狗》，只是彼时是用国家存亡掩盖桃色新闻，今日是用娱乐新闻掩盖文明毁灭，二十多年来人类的进化方向更悲观了……虽然cliché，但影片节奏把握很好，而且好笑是真的很好笑……
拍的很有电影质感，但是依旧无法弥补剧本中人物逻辑的问题
70分钟看得很仓促，很多设定要自己脑补，另外应该给打戏再加20分钟
反派人物动机略显老套，但整体剧情流畅，三个篇章各有特色，最后为什么不给其他剑士多一点戏份啊！
跟爱情神话莫名像，又比爱情神话磊落点，中外电影创作者的默契？确实要完。
美国老大哥带领全人类走向美好未来！感觉荒诞，但看看那些近两年发生的事，电影里的一切又像是现实世界的写照。不敢相信我在圣诞假期看了这么一部电影。
𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙪𝙥𝙩.
唯一的缺点就是短，篇幅不够描写伦太郎和贤人这两条线，显得仓促了点，但瑕不掩瑜，整体基调跟托马老师线几乎完美，后者直接超神，是一个值得与一看的假面最佳外传之一
区别于以往的骑士外传，更注重与文戏的部分，我个人很喜欢！
篇幅太短，亲情友情爱情都独立出来各拍一部就好了，每条线都是精品故事，伏笔稳定，比tv还稳！
你可能想问，这么多大牌亚当麦凯拿来拍什么？A totally fucking shity story as fuck as the reality.经过2020新冠，《降临》和《火星救援》描画的人类社会危机应对能力都算乐观了，更别指望《2012》和《后天》这样标准叙事能出现绝大部分国家和地区。亚当麦凯打破灾难片传统，《不要抬头》里，大规模自然灾难不再是主角，而是人类社会由于自己深陷各种治理机制障碍和冲突带来的灾难级应对。这片子看得让人不轻松，因为现实提供这部片子完美的“4D体验”。这片子不是喜剧，分明是post-covid19 纪录片。扣分项，糟糕的剪辑和配乐。
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