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.
小变态演的把我看哭了，还听见了熟悉的一句台词。
1.想反应国家对新冠的管理不当，然后并没有讲好。2.想表达护工的无助于绝望也没有到位，浅尝即止。3.男女主的感情线也很突兀。看完的我扑克牌脸…
一开始也很不理解最后那一段，后来我意识到，她是想能救一个是一个啊，而Tony就是她最有可能救下来的那个，不是莫名的感情线，是真的无力与绝望，是孤注一掷，是别无选择。
那个让人崩溃的夜。一直持续着。
也许对于突如其来得疫情，没有任何一个国家可以做到完美，相对于恐慌、惊叹、不知如何应对的策略，各有各的失去，也各有各的无奈，只是不需要歌功颂德，应该从失去的教训中总结经验，更从容地面对后面的人，才对得起那些为此付出生命的人们……
一个小护理院面对初期新冠肆虐的无力，难得一部真实展现疫情一线的作品，类似于《索尔之子》近景别虚背景的拍法让中段的long nignt充满窒息感，导演和演员在表现这一段面对新冠病人时，慌乱又细心、无助又努力的矛盾拿捏相当准确。最后一幕跳脱出来没能延续前三分之二的出色，有些可惜。
敢于直面政府的利物浦 牛！PS：那段长镜头太棒了 感觉身临其境
把镜头放小一点，对人的打动就会更大一点。中国医生，你看到了吗
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。。。
恭喜Jodie再获BAFTA，作为演员的Jodie Comer是天赐的礼物
真实事件改编，拍得很真实，聚焦渺小的个体，跟电影中国医生形成了鲜明的对比。影片从一家护理院艰难面对疫情延伸到国家对护理院病残人士采取的援助态度。结尾Sarah的话语直接将影片推向了高潮：……从什么时候起我们的生命变得不再平等了！摄影和调度不错，用了大量的大特写和运镜，朱迪科默和格拉汉姆演技很赞！对了，良心发问，从什么时候起我们的生命变得不再平等了？
女主角不错，下面评论说得好，接受一下迂回的主旋律。
镜头语言很简单朴实，仿佛纪录片，但那种压抑窒息和无力感却贯穿全程，当然也得益于啾迪超棒的演技，向所有无私奉献的护工致敬！
把英国防疫措施讽刺的。。。基本揭了一层皮。。。
一堆Scousers里只有Jodie说话最好听
女主勇敢、无助时的几段表演很不错。
仅凭口音，Josie Comer 就可以演什么像什么。
总会联系到今年最让我动容到收藏的帖子里一个网友的评论 说的就是网友自己的祖母住在养老院然后临终前都因为疫情见不到自己的亲人而给这些儿孙们留下一辈子的伤痛和遗憾
不用刻意煽情，也不用歌功颂德，把最真实的画面演绎出来，观众自有评判。刚发现有病例的那一段演的极好，几乎沉浸其中。虽然我国防疫政策给大家带来了诸多不便吧，不过这样一比较，群体免疫政策未免太不人道，生命面前真的有所谓的priority吗？作者把目光投向疗养院，投向老年群体，他们最容易被感染却被忽视，我们每个人都有老的一天，我想没有人想被那样对待吧？最后再感叹一下医疗资源真的太少了！
i love you acctully. i love you too. 我以为你爱他们，但如果你这么做了 你就和其他人没区别了。
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