Somewhere in the remote region, the war ends. In the midst of ruined cities and houses in the streets, in rural hamlets, everywhere where people still live, are children who have lost their homes and parents. Abandoned, hungry, and in rags, defenseless and humiliated, they wander through the world. Hunger drives them. Little streams of orphans merge into a river which rushes forward and submerges everything in its path. The children do not know any feeling; they know only the world of their enemies. They fight, steal, struggle for a mouthful of food, and violence is merely a means to get it. A gang led by Cahoun finds a refuge in an abandoned castle and encounters an old composer who has voluntarily retired into solitude from a world of hatred, treason, and crime. How can they find a common ground, how can they become mutual friends? The castle becomes their hiding place but possibly it will also be their first home which they may organize and must defend. But even for this, the price will be very high.
To this simple story, the journalist, writer, poet, scriptwriter, movie director, and film theoretician Béla Balázs applied many years of experience. He and the director Géza Radványi created a work which opened a new postwar chapter in Hungarian film. Surprisingly, this film has not lost any of its impact over the years, especially on a profound philosophical level. That is to say, it is not merely a movie about war; it is not important in what location and in what period of time it takes place. It is a story outside of time about the joyless fate of children who pay dearly for the cruel war games of adults.
At the time it was premiered, the movie was enthusiastically received by the critics. The main roles were taken by streetwise boys of a children's group who created their roles improvisationally in close contact with a few professional actors, and in the children's acting their own fresh experience of war's turmoil appears to be reflected. At the same time, their performance fits admirably into the mosaic of a very complex movie language. Balázs's influence revealed itself, above all, in the introductory sequences: an air raid on an amusement park, seen in a montage of dramatic situations evoking the last spasms of war, where, undoubtedly, we discern the influence of classical Soviet cinematography. Shooting, the boy's escape, the locomotive's wheels, the shadows of soldiers with submachine guns, the sound of a whistle—the images are linked together in abrupt sequences in which varying shots and expressive sharp sounds are emphasized. A perfectly planned screenplay avoided all elements of sentimentality, time-worn stereotypes of wronged children, romanticism and cheap simplification. The authors succeeded in bridging the perilous dramatic abyss of the metamorphosis of a children's community. Their telling of the story (the scene of pillaging, the assault on the castle, etc) independently introduced some neorealist elements which, at that time, were being propagated in Italy by De Sica, Rossellini, and other film artists. The rebukes of contemporary critics, who called attention to "formalism for its own sake" have been forgotten. The masterly art of cameraman Barnabás Hegyi gives vitality to the poetic images. His angle shots of the children, his composition of scenes in the castle interior, are a living document of the times, and underline the atmosphere and the characters of the protagonists. The success of the picture was also enhanced by the musical art of composer Dénes Buday who, in tense situations, inserted the theme of the Marseilaise into the movie's structure, as a motive of community unification, as an expression of friendship and the possibility of understanding.
Valahol Europaban is the first significant postwar Hungarian film. It originated in a relaxed atmosphere, replete with joy and euphoria, and it includes these elements in order to demonstrate the strength of humanism, tolerance, and friendship. It represents a general condemnation of war anywhere in the world, in any form.
我只想知道结局到底是啥，谁是真凶？？这个开放结局真的看的有点迷糊。
平淡又匆忙，整片的氛围看到结尾也没有在期待着什么，合了导演的意。
把所有更加难以解释的困顿推给了死亡的预告，真的很令人大失所望
前面做的铺垫虽然后面都用上了，但是还是很索然无味。后半个小时则是高能不断，但那个时候的观众早已提不起兴趣了。
还有这男的，明明自己有问题，脑子里全是黄色废料……以下不展开了
4.5分。除了女主的颜和身材，一无是处的烂片，男主老头那一脸欠扁的装叉样和无敌的o型腿倒是让人记忆深刻！好故事烂编剧的典型！
2.5 一开始以为是加缪异乡人式灵魂深处置身事外的存在主义设定，没想到解谜成癌症病人逃避一切，真是十级降到二级。不过米歇尔·弗兰克对场景的控制能力尚可。
@ Film Center, PFF 30. 很克制。最后的医院场不知道是解释还是延续，如果理解为后者会更好一点。
呵呵呵…反转反转再反转，可能你们眼中的大师之作就长这个样子吧。
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一场因误会而导致的悲剧，两个家庭破碎。如果女助理与老作家在事情发生后谈一谈，而不是发起指控，也许一切不会发生；女助理和老作家都做得太过火了。
他还是占了上层阶级的便宜啊，普通人如果绝症，毫无生存计谋，那…每天温饱都能焦虑死，哪来心情躺平
名作家骚扰打字小姐姐被告，法院传票寄到家里刺激了深受抑郁症困扰的前芭蕾舞演员妻子，导致妻子自杀还带走了小女儿……看上去很惨是吗？问题你作家和该隐有一毛钱相似之处吗？该隐是好端端被善妒的亚伯杀了，上帝才补偿给他伤害7倍偿还，你的妻女双亡跟被性骚扰的打字员有关系吗？就因为你个管不住下半身的成功人士一贯以为自己能随心所欲，后面的一系列骚操作打击报复更是把人渣本色演绎到底，这是什么天怒，明明就是人祸！导演把一个狗血故事包裹上宗教外衣就能美化犯罪者了？
影片并无宏大感和深刻性，但自始至终总萦绕着一股压抑感，上一次听到海浪声感觉如此压抑还是海边的曼彻斯特。
不好意思我没看懂…反转在哪？为什么看豆瓣点评我觉得我跟你们看的不是一部片…除了虚无，好像也没啥主题
人家女孩告他性骚扰没有什么错，他杀人全家就叫天怒？啥玩意……而且光悬乎地表示他杀一个又一个，没有证据，逃脱法律，问题咋操作你不表示表示？靠意念吗？
嗯嗯！
还不错，前面拍的比后面好，基本上暗流涌动，同时能把每个人的性格表现的蛮清楚，为后来打下蛮好的基础，而且张力十足，中期警察死的不拖泥带水，节奏好评，后面就是打打打，倒没啥意思了，尤其女主跟开了无双似的，都伤成那样，还这么猛，有点扯了，尤其在火力压制的情况下，凭一把小破手枪，反倒反杀，更扯淡了，幸亏杀手最后的帮忙，反倒拉回来了一点，但是人物转变又略嫌不足。
也许是有意为之，缺少弧光的角色使其活动的环境，即墨西哥，成为影片最大的主角。我们跟随男主的轨迹进入墨西哥社会的各个剖面（高档度假村、平民海滩、监狱、医院、午夜的首都街道），在主角的遭遇里深感人与环境和自我的疏离：表层的——因不懂语言、不解风情而产生的与异文化的疏离；深层的——人与人之间无法沟通的隔阂；本质的——内心深处探寻生命意义时的无力。
勉强两分。乔·卡纳汉目前为止最差作品。《血溅十三号警署》的故事模板，加了一些《五路追杀令》的元素。被追杀的黑金掮客来警局避难，杀手巴勒特马上追踪到位，但随后的变态杀手占去了最多戏份（还有俩没啥战斗力的黑警，这个寒酸的杀手阵容比《五路追杀令》可差远了）。警局里的警察都是些摆设，只有主角黑妹能打，但其实全片的动作场面不多，巴勒特跟格里罗、黑妹简直是聊天三人组，而黑妹的演技又撑不起她那些装酷台词，令人难熬。全片最好的一段是黑妹在微冲轰防弹门的当口更改地下牢房密码锁，制造了紧迫感，也显出这个角色的判断力，至于她接下来识别黑警的那段，更多是剧本硬坳了。其余浴室对决等不多的动作戏在气氛营造、动作设计上都不行。散落了一些恶趣味，比如巴特勒要跟格里罗单挑，马上就被后者放倒；变态杀手杀警后，飘落的兔宝宝气球
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