Set in an under\(ground dun geon[_ inha,bi ted% by bund@le =d, ragged human bei?ngs, af:*-ter the n!!uclear h)+`_olocaust .%#]  The story follows the wanderin-],gs )$ of a hero?; th!roug[h the sit%.[
$uations of *,survival. People w-ait _,for t;(*h#
)e Ark to a[;))[rrive and?* r*escue them while their habitat fa;?lls apart.　　Delving deep +into the dusty
$/;an# ,d [^l.+$o.ng abandonde!%d]  vaults of b]-cinema in search ; of lost gem+!$%s always leav:?.e^s me#` wit@+ :h a b\itt[-;+`ersweet @%_taste-^[. On one hand the disc.overy o);_f ;,]unexpe-ct(ed g_e ,ms

=where *\ no one would t.hink them#
 possib+le is
-. a-_ reward%]`ing experience. On the.. o
-;the,;;r hand thou
\g,! h i?t 
makes $ one wonder how ma :
ny o;f %these remarkable lo _w-bu\!dget odditie=#s\, per%(_ s -onal l!#o?%%v-;/e affairs of direc:?tors never quite %fa\mous ,and now a*/ll but forgotten, hav+/e*- almost@) forever sl;i?p,$/ped $fr#om memory　　n: a? ny c/$ase -what ] we@ have h_!ere is a( li=-ttle p !ost-apocaly.,ptic g@e+ m ,%/from Pola*nd that is real,:#ly better than it has any -@.rig:./:$ht to.$ The dystopian near  future of %$];O-BI, O)$-BA finds a group of survi?:vors of( th=%e nuclear war that ravaged the (_Earth, i?/):^nhabiting@`\ a^]*n und/er-,,@world) -conc)rete$ b/%unker %-and bidin(g.^^ their tim+:*e as t^h*ey wait for th.?:e myst?#=erious Ar#.k, an air )@ship of s/!ome\ kind !tha()t will co:$m+?e an-d *:save them. The Ark pr!@[+oves to be [?an elaborate hoax, carefully d*/*esign%ed to%\ give hope to %t;h%(_#e malnourished and! d+es#$+)perate-$ denizens of the bunke!)@r, wh.!i^l;(e in _th`$e me@anti*me the dome tha=t sep,a)! rates their m iserable existence from. the n/(ucle`\ar winter o]),utside \^is slow_\;^ly `!`caving in+.　).　What first # striked me [about the movie is the design of the  (bunker ;:an%d th) `=+e? de?-piction of ]the survivors. The survivo` rs ar.e gaunt, filthy an!d[ t );e_ rribl@e-looking pen _ iten`;:ts,^@% %@#dres=`%sed in?, rags% and`; aimlessly. wand=e)-rin +g the ,@neo
)n-lit hal*:ls of the bunker/ like a#u[ t\om ,?aton@s. (The; bunker )+i.s /#a rundow_n, seedy place),@% with brigh!@t n ,eon li@*ght,^s pee+r=ing ,!from all sides like the eyes of malignan\
+t b$% ,easts.　　On one` hand it\ @*is a slightly 80's -)depiction of t=he dyst]`opian fu$[+t .ure but`^ the m`ovie never stoo=ps down t+o.% $MAD-, MA*X chee__$se.` Instead/ ] it combines biti]ng p#]olitical sati^re with the blea\k o[ utl %ook of a world w(?,it((h no future,-)^ black c!]o!,/+medy :+wi%.th ba rbs on apathy, rel# igion a
nd power. The sur]:vivors, f(,or exampl=/e@, a#re fed; ?`%%some kind of flour droppin]@g-)- from a tube that h=[) o\:vers in the ^ _=air -` ] later o/@/n we dis\
cover the food supervisor @uses b)ook/s _+and t$he /!Bibl[_e it+^@self as ^?fi
 l\ler for th+is,_ mea[gre meal. There are many;[ such short symbolic t+(ouch?e.s, p;erhaps n .ot+ life-chang#i ng or faith-resto[,_ring, yet) pl-_ayf :%ul,): +[clever and i*+nspi.
red.　　On?e thing is for,+#. sure; O-BI, - *(O-B;%A is not you)\,r run-of-the-mill sci-fi%: schloc`k. It over.comes)+%* its mod_est budget with creat! (;ivity and%;* has[  genuine artistic [
a;spir)ations both fro -(m a writi  n+g and directing]/ ]persp-ectiv -e.^! My #!op)`inion *\ is.] tha+,t it should have been filmed in black and wh#ite in;-:stea+
d of :
colour ([?+]though.[-: !
The d@ (irec= @t^[,or us],
es atmospher.ic light -#and-% shadow to gr$ $+e^a!t effect a *.`nd it wou ld%` have registered e;:ven^ bett+_er in ;?stark`- black ?+*and wh -ite. The blue-gr.%-ee@n neon . on th#e othe,_r hand outstays its ., welcom=+-\e aft*:er a whil.@e_-. -Just a _minor gripe in a-^$ n o,therwise solid b-movie with it%$ s heart ?/=.set in all the ri?ght plac(%es.　　Imagi[: ne ?a. less /`bleak T \HE )
RO_$AD (Corm!ac M?)cCart,%;^hy) be=%[ing injected with the s/:a:.[;tire and h_umo?ur of DR.STRANGELOVE a$
nd, , you_,'re #`,getting there. See it if you\(\ 
ca._*n find it.