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.
作为群星玩家，听到巨构就兴奋了，巨构那段很震撼，人类起源的脑洞也不错，唯一的问题是有点割裂，半部科幻片半部灾难片，两边都没看爽的感觉，时长再加一小时，可能成为一部灾难片历史上的经典，
无端祸从天上来，月球变轨落残骸。三人小组急出征，拯救世界靠肥宅。
1分钟和1条钥匙拯救地球，前面尽是废话连篇，还好最后的视效挽回了些分数。
3.5。特效参差不齐，不过后半段的重头戏还是给力的
就故事也一般特效也一般啥都一般，就新增了个“戴森球”的名词。。。
我觉得月球是空的，这个脑洞值回票价。
吉吉国王是什么人间小天才，这职场线也太爽了，从头爽到尾，在电影院我和女朋友看得好过瘾。
剧情只想给二星，关于人文的部分和撞车差不多。给四星的原因是因为，是老婆买的票，是和看问天少年杂志的儿子一起看的。剧情有bug，就有吧。哪有那么多尽善尽美呢。比起电影内容，当下的自己可能更关心的是和谁做了什么。
拍电影不能缺少资金，但不代表资本就可肆意羞辱电影及观众。
國外真的已經把造物真相普及到1+1=2的程度了。
在互联网巨头眼里，专利权算个p，抄袭更是家常便饭。
剧情只想给二星，关于人文的部分和撞车差不多。给四星的原因是因为，是老婆买的票，是和看问天少年杂志的儿子一起看的。剧情有bug，就有吧。哪有那么多尽善尽美呢。比起电影内容，当下的自己可能更关心的是和谁做了什么。
从《赘婿》等近两年的国产ip可以看出，制作方都是生意人，自然是各方都要讨好。女性觉醒、女性就业、新时代男女关系、商业模式，再套个架空王朝的壳子。在我这个外行看来，挺不错了。
回归到了喜剧风格还是很好看的，比电视剧的后半段要有意思多了。
在这个片荒的阶段，能有这排面的灾难片看看也是不错了，还要什么逻辑。片尾曲不错带感。
2星半，白瞎了特效，既想硬科幻，又想灾难片，结果四不像，哪样都不到位，还有胖子让人神烦
大场面挺好的 就是这绿幕扣得也太烂了吧… 人物跟纸片人似的飘在背景前…
特效很不错的
女主56了？？？居然看起来30左右，而且还是很美，黑人基因真是不显老啊。电影无聊的时候打发时间。
节奏太快，设定奇幻，逻辑不科学。就像知道那个中国女的是黑人女的现任么？
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