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.
好缠绵的感情，在那个社会的LGBT真的太难了
女婴，女孩，女人，女巫。浅焦，摇摄，逆光，马利克。充满历史隐喻的意象诗，导演值得入股。
相当舒缓、冷峻的艺术片，仅有的恐怖元素来自于女巫仿佛《猛鬼街》里弗莱迪的烧伤面容，和血肉模糊的开膛破肚；哑巴少女慢条斯理的内心独白贯穿全片，娓娓道来着她的情绪、疑问和欲望：她因为女巫的诅咒失去声音成为同类，又通过画皮一般借尸还魂成男人、女人和孩童，补充着缺失的生活同时，探索生而为人的喜怒哀乐。以女孩婴儿时期被女巫诅咒成为怪物作为开头，到最后为救自己姑娘被迫把她变成怪物作为结尾，母亲与女儿，也成了电影的一条暗线，构成了一个闭环。
环球，口碑爆棚，劳米现在可以算得上是劳模了，一年最少两部片
冲着男主长得像开花看的，案情各种阻拦，其实隐隐约约能猜到点，故事总体来说还不错
整体基调太压抑了，但故事叙述还是不错的，演员颜值不错，演技也很好，虽然给了大家一个开放性结局，但感觉不明朗
假如马力克拍恐怖片会是什么样，这片的风格太像《隐秘的生活》。一个没有好好当人的女孩，在成为女巫后打算体验人生，男人、女人、小孩，甚至一条狗。讽刺的是在她十六岁以前本可以好好体验人生，却被关在山洞里十六年，美其名曰“保护”。诗意的镜头，柔和的光线，漂亮的风景，浅浅的薄雾，大大的特写，伴随着喃喃细语，诉说着那些困惑和感触。文艺片标配被这个导演全都玩了一遍，玩得得心应手，关键这是部恐怖片啊，而且导演还是第一次拍长片。更让人惊奇的是，文艺的外衣和恐怖的内衣下，是导演对于人生和人性的深刻思考。
办案就一定要水落石出
“这一切对你来说怎么就这么简单？”，文艺恐怖片，三星半，
哪里有压迫，哪里就有反抗
剧情还可以 挺好的，节奏很快，推荐大家观看！超好看
这么多年过去，就像我们依然在讨论朱迪福斯特说的，最好的男演员身上的脆弱感到底是什么。那种脆弱感就像女巫每次变换成不同人类时，眼睛里流露出的迷茫和怜悯，关于这个身份，这个我到底是天生的，还是被塑造的，被驯服的？你，我，他，女人，男人，我们，你们，到底什么是相同的，什么是不同的？
整体基调是黑的。一句我会找到你，哭晕了。。。不滥交的同性是yyds。磕到了
发生在另一个平行宇宙里的A24×Malick crossover...配乐还用了Arvo Pärt
男主在被男二亲了后面就去亲女主，是确定自己的性取向还是忏悔?
It flows and flows, and still it stays in the same spot."
做人不能什么都害怕，尤其不能害怕自由。面对真相、面对体制、面对强权、面对真爱，都是如此。 @2021-11-06 15:30:09
22_075。打倒一切借恐怖片名义拍的文艺片！好的虽然可能可以讲出“因为爱使她改变，因为有爱而使她有生命，因为有爱而让她感受这个世界”之如此类的感想，但我真的只是想看部恐怖片而已啊！
当你以为是苦大仇深历史同影，它变成了刑侦，然后让你觉得是清纯男大生掰弯直男条子记，最后它又变成了死亡小学生式找内奸。 不过结尾的处理很不错，男主最后的行为受职责/道德还是感情驱使更多？一句不大可能实现的谎言“我会去找你”足矣。
本来以为是邪典cult片 看完整个一个沉默+emo
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