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.
艰难又勉强的看了个大概，因为朱迪科默永远定格在KE里了，斯蒂芬格拉汉姆又似乎还在浴血黑帮里…害。
1.此“抗疫片”不仅揭露了外国枉顾人权抗议不力的种种乱象，更暴露出其宣传条线不讲政治不顾大局的涣散局面；2.从歌颂到批判、从批判到改善，各自都还有长路要走；3.从反社会混不吝的杀手到内心有爱无助又坚定的护工，Jodie在演技上一次结实而漂亮的跨越。
比起宏大叙事的英雄主义，这样一部聚焦护工和她的病人们的小人物挣扎更让我动容。中间那段接近20分钟救助肯尼的长镜头，看得让人焦心又难过，那一盏盏忽明忽灭的感应灯像极了当下的心情。这个世上从来都没有什么英雄主义，我们不过就是在这样困厄的环境下奋力生存罢了。疫情真的是改变了一切，那个2019年无忧的夏天再也回不去了，也可能永远不会再有了吧
本子，想说的太多，就不说了。
这个视角讲疫情挺不错的，拍的也不错，只是因为讲的是更英国的故事没能那么有耐心看。最后也是创作者抨击英国体制的落点，但这个片的视角确实值得借鉴。
真得在观影过程中产生了生理性的压抑性不适。
同背景下 影片以小见大 两个人的命运 写着这场疫情的走向
Never is. Never is. It’s always someone else.
这不是电影这是一纸诉状。给我新老婆精湛的演技献上五星。
3.5两位主演的表演非常不错…
有人在拍社会反思，有人在拍没有“我们”你们会怎样。新冠三年，有了《援助》和《无耻之徒》，非典20年，还什么都没有。
病患做到的，政府却做不到或不愿做，这个讽刺很揪心。
hhh院长是肥瑞里面的心理老师呀跟啾啾同框联动了hhh。。。jojo好美好美好美好美💗💗💗
是我看过这么多电影中，虚焦用得最多也是最好的一部。中间那个长镜头，也看得人揪心。
什么时候起生命变得不平等了？
和中国医生不同的角度去描述新冠初期给生活带来的冲击，这个至少正面讽刺了nhs，以小人物的视角展现了整个社会的巨大变迁#BTW英音真的好方言
影片拍攝的角度很小但很真實，電影的描寫和沉浸感充滿了感染力。
新冠袭来，之前简单的事情都变得异常困难，很真实展现了疫情初期养老院的窘境。
这是对新冠病毒正确的打开方式，简陋的医疗物资几乎靠自己命硬工作，根本没有人会来，只能等死，没有急救车，而这些人连成为一个数字的资格都没有，就这么被关起来按上钉子敲敲打打封印起来，仅仅3个月死了将近4w9，而且大多数来自更需要被看护的护理院，记得新冠在年前有个女孩，妈妈发烧送到急救中心，去世后直接被一辆车拖走，女孩追着载有母亲遗体的车追着奔跑厮喊拍打着车门，妈妈只是感冒了，不要带走我的妈妈，ZGYS在拍点什么，还没当时直播火神山和雷神山感人
“当国民的健康得不到的时候，他们做了什么，从什么时候我们的生命变得不再平等”看这部片子前，刷到被小区居民驱赶的务工阿姨的新闻，现在的上海太让人失望了
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