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.
正对镜头的拷问传承了四百下，浪潮的精神。我们的平凡故事，无人书写。
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意想不到的优秀 比生存更重要的是人类做出无数牺牲争取而来的自由的意义 我们极大概率拍不出这样的电影 不仅是体制 更是文化的追求
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还有人在提醒你我们曾经度过的可怕岁月，提醒你记住，记住社会体制的所作所为。
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越来越喜欢这种自然呈现、不刻意输出的电影。疫情突发时的那种无助、绝望和不甘心，以及片尾那段振聋发聩的质问，朱迪的表现既在意料之外又在意料之中，总之她从不让人失望，特棒！最后感叹一下，英国英语的口音真是太多了，比如这部电影就是其中一例～
英国抗疫纪实电影，揭露现状抨击体制的，然而现实依然还在。。。
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“It's not my department, love.”
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Kenny呼吸难受的那段，默默的用桌上的Sanitiser洗了三遍手………
上海解封了。Is it getting better or just stay the same?
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不是想泼冷水，但是这是今年看到的最令我震撼的疫情角度的影片，疫情当下，此片无关爱情，关于依赖，关于责任。
新冠疫情下孤立无援的马前卒，终究是敌不过职场上居功自傲的马后炮。
【2021年第126部】很有意义的一部电影
不输电影制作水准的单集SP。刚看了《失控玩家》没多久，再看《help》，感觉Jodie演技得到了很多延伸和可发挥空间。中间求助那一段几乎是今年所有女演员中最出色的表演了，看来好的剧本是需要这种好演员相佐的。如果是在院线，Jodie可以冲一下欧三影后了。
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