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.
但是也是在这类问题上的佳作。
电影时长真可以，本片最厉害的主人公电影演一多半了才出场。高分印度电影近年来的套路就是:通过应接不暇的神反转，埋伏足够多的隐喻，进而拔高电影的整体立意。最后被轰炸了几个小时脑细胞的观影者不得不感叹:看着虽然累但电影还是牛叉的。PS:本片适合放暑假的师生细品。😅😅😅
一锅乱炖，乱炖一锅，为反转而反转，简直到了可笑的地步。密不透风的音乐哦，耳朵和脑仁儿被轰两个多小时。
162分钟，结尾居然是这个……虎头蛇尾吧。
要先把问题摆上台面，然后才有通过现代文明途径解决的可能性。
希望国内有一天也能拍出这样畅所欲言的电影。
要先把问题摆上台面，然后才有通过现代文明途径解决的可能性。
自从有政治，人就在说谎，没一个皇帝不说谎，没一个总统不说谎。在这既短暂又永恒的风云变幻中，我们要反省自己有没有作为其中的一份子，促成了这个风云变幻。电影鼓励有独立意识的人去积极行动，而不是消极等待。在这场游戏中，我们无法取胜，但某些失败强似别的失败，仅此而已。
《唤石》→ 猫咪老师为了喝上美酒还蛮努力的。——《可疑的访客》→ 田沼：……不过无论如何，我还挺开心的，因为我和夏目看到过同样的东西了。……
看完电影久久不能平复，不是说电影带给了我什么样的冲击，而是在想它在我这儿是不是一部好电影。
近来印度电影反转玩得挺溜的，这部电影真的就是反转反转再反转，而所有反转的内因又都是体制本身的腐败导致，某种意义上，电影的主题其实讲得尤为深刻。
而它的主题公正和法治，我觉得法治已经深入我国民众心底了。
一开始以为又是一部女权，看到后面才知道升级到了对愚民政治的嘲讽，不过关键转折还是要靠副督察良心发现才能完成，实际可能性很低，看来任何体质都是一样黑暗的，学生永远都是最有革命热情，也最容易被鼓动的群体。
没有人能将每一条树根全盘拔起，因为当你捋着它行走的脉络挖掘时，会发现一个悲哀的事实是，自己并不是在跟这个树疙瘩本身较劲，而是在和脚下的整片土地做对了。
7，也许很多人认为这种题材“像”某些高级的电影，只是这只是善意的误会。故事很悬浮，其中的法庭戏，如果不是编剧的经验不足就只能说明印度的法治真的太差了。警察杀人的铺垫不足导致前面不足以代入，还有莫名其妙的慢镜头，除了律师很多人都在讲显而易见的情绪，全员降智（包括控方律师）。我理解都是为了反转，最后的一小时确实亮眼，虽然全部从律师嘴里说出来不符合电影语言，但实现的情绪效果（正如角色说的，点燃观众的情绪，人们就变成了信徒）还是不错的。
8.5/10.0，电影的毛病还是有的，比如过硬的情节转折，角色的过于脸谱化，过多纷繁复杂的角色，根本没法一一讲好。
剧情像迷宫，弯路绕多了反而让人不知道终点到底是哪里，前一个小时是印度类型片的枯燥，后一个小时是西班牙式悬疑的转折，让人惊喜。
最后烘托气氛有点三而竭的感觉，扣分。
依然是这种主题依然发人深省依然存在每个角落
因为想要探讨的话题比较繁多，所以在剧情的设置上感觉异常地丰腴，与其说是电影，节奏感上更像是一部迷你剧。印度的种姓，司法公正，政治，媒体，社会舆论……几乎都被覆盖了一遍，导演是很明白民众的情绪走向的，所以几处剧情在刻意为之的情况下确实非常有煽动性，但整体看来印度片对人物的刻画还是比较薄弱，许多情节冷静下来思考缺乏一定的合理性。不过看到片中许多台词，真的很难不对号入座，所以，我们的宿敌又是谁呢？
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