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星河入梦

近未来，虚拟梦境系统“良梦”问世，人们可以在自己定制的梦境中随时“圆梦”，轻松“躺赢”。然而，一场由“梦”引发的危机悄然而至，“良梦”管理员彪哥（王鹤棣 饰）不得不唤醒舰长思蒙（宋茜 饰），救出卡在梦里的所有人。双人成行，穿梦闯关，一场脑洞大开的梦境冒险就此展开……

毛骨悚然撞鬼经 2022夏季特别篇

毒蜂

新型毒品“蜜蜂”在江州毒品市场肆虐，随着研制者“毒蜂”被缉拿归案，其配方也面临消失，毒界变得风声鹤唳。主人公段成（富大龙 饰）在一次押送途中越狱，并对外宣称自己是“唯一知道蜜蜂配方”的人，面临配方重出江湖的巨大诱惑，多方势力开始对段成展开威逼利诱。经历追杀、强行被注入毒品等非人折磨后，段成渗入毒巢，以“诱饵”身份一步步接近大毒枭“蜂王”……另一方面，江州警方的“捕蜂人行动”也正式启动，一场正与邪、善与恶的黑白对决一触即发……

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　　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.