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.
第一场拍街头的戏份就败好感，滥用镜头和剪辑的结果就是乱战只剩下「乱」。从中看不到任何作为导演存在的有效调度，走位混乱到捕捉不到任何镜头语言的美感。所以选择制成黑白电影同样也是这类问题。意义何在？纯粹为了所谓的追忆而凹出故作高级的质感？还有，请放过《罗马》。
就是一个van morrison的compilation。
记忆会为一个人选择他永远的故乡和家园。用黑白影像着意雕琢的时间质感和老工业国家平民阶层的鲜活淳朴气息，在本片中还算比较和谐地融合在一起，围绕是否离乡这一核心事件铺展推动的主线也流畅清晰，一些情绪抒发的细节场景呈现得相当动人，小男孩对爷爷说“我希望你和奶奶也在”的自然和真挚以及结尾落在奶奶面庞引发的无奈、理解和某种忏悔都独具力道，可跻身年度时刻。但视角的不统一和整体的浪漫化处理，也使影片的糖衣过厚，特别是结尾暴乱危机和爷爷纪念聚会两场重场戏的设计和呈现实在太过陈旧和想当然，有点自降其格。与[罗马]远不是一个量级也远不是一类电影，卡隆通过回忆记起了整个时代，而肯尼思·布拉纳则在回忆中与自己进行了和解。
pop说，“你是贝尔法斯特15区的巴迪，无论你去哪里变成什么样，这永远是事实。” 所以故乡是离开故乡以后的身份证，也是漂泊在外的一份安全感，像牵着风筝的线一样。好像很多导演最终会拍一下自己的故乡，让我想起贾科长说的回望故乡赋予我们获取看世界的最初的经验。
电影是彩色的，现实是黑白的，看到了对电影的爱。除此之外一般般
致那些留下的故人，致那些离开的游子，以及所有那些迷失的人。
#4.0# 小孩儿演得不错 肯尼思布拉纳快要被我拉黑了
配乐奇奇怪怪，使用随心所欲，风格变幻无穷
其实……我真的……很想说……有些国内导演……能拍到这个程度就差不多了……基于此……这片也不很差…（ps感觉科林老叔比梅林里长得好看了！！）
6.5/10 摄影尤其是构图当然很精致，也描绘出自己对贝尔法斯特难以割舍的情怀，一个充满人情味的城镇跃然幕上，但终究还是太私人了，或许会因为某一段的纯真与质朴发笑，但远远未能达到入戏的程度。
中国人肯定很难共情和理解一个北爱尔兰家庭为了挣更多钱从贝尔法斯特搬到伦敦的纠结和艰难，这距离差不多只是相当于从青岛到北京的距离。何况那里还充满了暴力、宗教名义下的冲突、债务和各种不安定，对中国人来说，巴不得早早拍屁股走人。
把一个告别故乡的故事建立在宗教冲突的背景下，给留下的人一个离开的理由，给离开的人一个安心的原因，给迷途上的人一条僻静的道路。身处万里之外的我，虽无法感触其中的挣扎与无奈，但也从中得到了对在不久后离开故乡的些许慰藉。配乐是艺术。
只是話口未完，2021最被高估電影，還得強調。
三分之一后每出现一首歌和影视剧名称我就翻一次白眼。肯导演的这部电影和《哈利波特》里水货教授的花衣裳如出一辙。这部电影居然被奥提了，滑稽。
镜头感超级好的一部黑白片，关于北爱尔兰的近代故事。
C. 想要展现孩子眼中童年滤镜下的世界，却只会像赶场一样堆砌技巧，直到糖衣厚到消灭了所有质感。炫技炫得像一部韦斯·安德森的半成品，又无法做到人家的极致和精美，最后只能是不上不下割裂紊乱又时刻招摇到惹人烦的空壳。
没看懂。但抢超市那段妈妈问你抱着那个洗衣粉干嘛？小男孩回答：it's biological！还是挺搞笑的。爸爸有点像裘德洛，最后那说的那段话应该记下来。我也不知道这世界为什么这么多歧视和冲突，搞不懂
Kenneth Branagh有一个金子般的童年，父慈母爱，学习好还有漂亮女孩子喜欢
三星。头尾两幕处理的不错，然而第二幕近乎崩塌。黑白摄影和故乡这种私人化的情节处理不由得让人想到卡隆的《罗马》。《罗马》是克制且冷静的，《贝尔法斯特》则滑向了它的反面——肯尼思布拉纳似乎不知何为节制，各种意义不明的琐事和迷影情节拼接在一起，想要在各种程度上表现出他对故乡对个人往事的情感，却最终落入过度的自我陶醉之中。
我是真的不太懂奥斯卡了，开玩笑呢，工业水平甚至不如英剧，说成是舞台剧还差不多。
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