禁果情花

　　达武德从战争中归来，发现他村里的每个人都死于一种奇怪的疾病并且已经腐烂。 他的妹妹是唯一的幸存者，也正在慢慢腐烂。 达武德被他作为一名士兵的记忆所困扰，因为他面临着唯一真正的问题：生存和生活一样吗？

　　合力击败马交文之后，king（刘德华 饰）与化骨龙（张家辉 饰）联合化骨龙的表哥阿叻（陈百祥 饰）骗取了恶人大眼文一笔钱。当他们打算享受一番之际，大眼文把化骨龙抓走了。King与阿叻则被警方带到与中方高层见面，他们被派往拉斯维加斯捉拿大老千Peter朱（万梓良 饰）。为了得到巨款拯救化骨龙，king接受了这次任务，前往拉斯维加斯。　　在拉斯维加斯，小心（郁芳 饰）与阿扁（林熙蕾 饰）一心想找到金龟婿，后来加入了king的老千行列。终于他们遇到了Peter，两人互相欺骗更多次交手，敌意渐生。　　King用阿扁做饵勾引Peter成功，他们经由沙漠公路到洛杉矶，途中Peter极力逃脱。众人在沙漠奋力搏斗。Peter的手下竟然用直升机拯救，幸好king神机妙算，顺利把Peter带回香港。

 在一家名为“自由伊甸园”的商店里。店员“苹果”、“樱桃”和“无花果”私下维持着一个神秘的女巫社团，而新入职店员“南瓜”的出现，开始让这份姐妹情谊遭受质疑。面对新人的挑战，这群各怀鬼胎的女性不得不直面潜藏心底的幽暗，冲突也随之演变成血腥的暴力。

　　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.