等待\]方舟

Set`_ in *;an underground du_ngeon i%nhabi.)
te
\d by+] ?)!bundled, ragged human b;eing%*s,+ af/#ter the nucl/ ear h?\o:/l[ocaus*
t. The story follows the wan)derings of a h;ero throug:\h the situa *+tions of survival. People @wai?$t fo;=r t) /he Ark to ar @rive and rescue t;$h#;=em while\* th.eir habitat falls apa=
*rt.　　Delvi,n^g deep into $+the dusty and long abandonded `@:vaul ts of b-cinema ]=in searc]h ;o`)=f lost gems: 
al+ways leaves me with -_=%a bit_ .te$/+rswee\t tast,%e.;,
 On one) hand t]__he-? discovery of +.unex[)pect
ed:$$\) gems where no one), w+ould think %`=them\ :^%poss =ible is a`_ rew*arding experience. O] -n ^the @*[\ot^her hand th__ough it mak)+\es one wo)\;)nder how many of %/(these (:=!remarkable low-budget oddities@^,* pers?\onal lov\]+e affairs of _$di@rec;*`tors() ne=,ver =quite ^famous _.@and n\
ow all (but forgotten, h] $ave almost forever s`;lipp@
e d fr+om memory 　　n an[y cas:=:e what w+_*e hav=e ,`+here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Pol\:?a?%nd that is #real:ly better %$than\;.
i*t has `a]*n:y
 ri\ght ^to. Th
; e dysto%^pi+] an n[ear) f_utur;e of  O_/,-BI]?, O-BA/ finds a. g,*roup! of survivors o=@f the nu*c` l^ )ear war that) ravaged the Ea_rth in;.[`%h(\!%a*!.!bitin$ g an underwo$r*ld concrete bun-#ker and biding their t;i,!me as *they wait!( for@#%] the mysteri!ous-
 Ar(^ !k$,, an air ship of- s?#ome  kind that will c^[ome ;.* a_;nd save them. The Ark p\roves to be a\-n el!aborate hoax, c[-`areful/,ly desig:_;n] ed to give hope to ++]the malno/`u*rished a^]?nd desperat.@*@e den.=ize%ns of the bun_,ke;r, ^?% while in+`] %@ :
the # mea],n.tim
;e[, t.he do^me that_!: separat_!`es their mi^/serable existence fr[]om =#/the nucle:,ar winter outside is slow(:l%y  caving in.　　Wha%t
),first str\;iked  me *?about t.he* mov\;ie is/(/ %t-he desig+;n of t/he *+! bunke #^ ^r and the de)=picti - on o?
f the#
survivors.-. The $survivors are gaunt, filthy and#] terrible-lo *o$\#king pe%nit*ents, dressed in rags and ai m[l *essly wandering t).he n)eon#--lit (* halls of [th*e` bunk$er l  ^ike au$[t,+o%mato$`?$n- s. The bu/.^nker is `%a ru)
ndown, s[^@eedy place, with bright neon lights ]
peerin ] \g
`f$ (_rom
! all \,sides like the e)*yes [-of mal-`ig% nant beas `#ts.　　On ;one ha^(nd it? is a s@light .*l??y 8 =0's ,depiction=) :( o^f the@.` dyst?op@ian future bu(,=t the m\-ovie never stoops down to MAD MA
!=X cheese. ^=Inste+\)ad i-t =combin_#-es  biting po--litic+al satire [ w*:@ith the bl\*eak o.utlook of a ; world with no future, black comed@@^-y with ba@!rbs on apath ,y, r  e:,[]ligio.n and pow:-er. The s=`urv @ ivo )-rs, f.%]or exampl[e, are f;e=d+ some kin:#d of `% flour dro!pping fro#,m a tub\?e that,] hovers i;\n (the a`ir - l+a
ter on we
d`isco[ve)r t+he foo!#d supervisor uses(: books
!an.`d the Bible itself as fil- ler(_ for this m!eagre meal. There([\% a`=re_ many :such short symb olic tou#-ches, perhaps not life-chang,-ing]
;. o*r fa.:ith !#-re)storing^]
,(? yet playful, c lever and ins=;$ pired.　　O]n +e` t#h -.ing i?;s for ?\sure_^; O-BI, O-BA is no*$*(t your ru%,+n-of- the-mill sci-fi schlock]*_. It overco+[me\^s ;:_*i^+ts modest [budget with #\cre-ativity ]and# has genuine a(*r tis` %tic a)spira_tions both from a w*[riting a@nd directi-ng pers$)-$]pec) tive. My opini/+on is that it should h).)ave been film,ed in black and w  hite in\.stead of c*
olour th(ough. Th**e% ? d*+!ir[?ector u).[ ses/ at;*]mospheric lig^\ht a^#nd sha?_ dow to; great! effect_?) a!#nd it #%would have reg^_i.;$stered even better in  (stark bl#_ac\ ,k a_^ nd white -.` +)The blue-green neon on the other; hand out*? !stays its
:+ w\#el_come= /`@af)ter a
% while. Just `*
a m^#i#[nor\ + gri[pe in an (\=other ,wi^,se solid b-m ov_,;ie with i\
ts heart set i_n all the right places.　　Imag#ine %%?a less bleak THE[)/ R]OAD (Cormac McC*( ar$thy)= being ;inje@=`+cted%+ with the satire and =`h -um\/`our of DR.STRANGELOVE a^nd ] you're getting there /-`.]! See it
if ^ y^ou can find it.