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.
Broken people save broken people. 老吉厉害
翻拍丹麦同名电影，和《接线员》等悬疑犯罪异曲同工，同类型美剧代入感最强
没看过原来的片子，但是就这转折直接扣住了主题我给一百分。结尾给了个圆满结局其实对joe坦白认罪比较没有信服力，应该女人死了婴儿ICU更有寓意。
由一个演员撑起的整部片。四星为吉伦哈尔演技給的。心碎人救心碎人。深呼吸
从头到尾只有一个场景。通过电话那头的描述却能想象出一场惊心动魄的营救。转折的力度稍显不足。
欣赏不来。。。 还以为剧情和画面会很精彩，结果就这？
老吉的演技是没挑的，但人设有点奇怪，这么个分分钟爆炸的定时炸弹，不太适合做接线员吧…最近连续的森林大火，LA可能是真的越来越不宜居了？
完全照搬原版所有的设定对白和镜头 但本片最后的结尾却有些状况之外 唯一胜过的是杰克吉伦哈尔积极戏剧化的表演 平心而论本片不属于难拍的范畴 演员对对白和情绪的把握是片子最核心的基础 本片没有最好的地方在于演员卖力的同时没有把节奏和情绪共同控制调度起来 自然比起原版更加差强人意
这种脾气的911接线员应该会坏很多事儿吧？然后，观众并不想看到他在马桶里吐的东西是啥颜色。
杰克吉伦哈尔表演出色
即使不考虑跟原版的对比，即使有Jake，也只能给三星
Why? Because I could.
人物情感很扎实，但还是有一种“that’s it?” 的感觉
我最近这是什么手气啊……氛围很好，前面一半搞不懂什么事就不想快进，整个故事通过打电话来展开也不让人难受。吐槽：男主在片子里一言不合就开喷，挨喷的有脸人不是胖子就是女人，大家都还好好地哄着他，也许是因为大家都知道他正在艰难时刻？最后男主不仅心碎人救心碎人，还洗心革面重新做人。总之：当白男真好啊。
原版本就没太好 这版翻拍更为平庸 好莱坞式的结局太烂了 也就吉伦哈尔的演技值得一看
看到一半突然觉得好像以前看过一部很像的电影。
说真的 就是一个暴躁的暂时停职等待过堂的警察临时担当911接线员的故事 暴躁 无视 很狂 关键是这个警察之前误杀了19岁的受害者 还串通同事作证 好在最后醒悟了 话说美国这样的事应该不少吧
以前不怎麼喜歡吉倫哈爾，這部片子真是不錯，就耍他一個人。不過那幾位聲音配角也真是不錯。
断背山里的吉伦哈尔如今更加成熟了，一个人的独角戏，从开始撑到最后。把那种自以为是试图掌控一切，神经质，焦虑，还有得知反转的真相后的悔恨，认罪后的自我救赎，演绎得很有渐进层次。偶尔的近距离特写，能看到他长长浓密的睫毛，还是挺帅，略有沧桑的颜。
故事剧情的发展非常抓人，高潮迭起完全无尿点。
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