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.
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胜在困境的营造有真实感，所有人也都是困兽犹斗，无论杀人和被杀皆如此。失分在分出黑白，老战友的转变突兀。
"回家是記憶"，在肉體和心靈上所受創傷仍舊被作為消耗品隨時棄之以及相互自相殘殺上也是暗喻了老兵群體和大阿公之間的不平等關係和衝突是內耗的實質，死亡和不得永生的悲慘下場是可預期的結果。
Home is a memory.
愣把一个禽流感时候的库存拖到了新冠，比预想中还好看很多。
不得不说，印度神片的摄影、音乐、美术和节奏都相当在线
太平淡了，任务前就知道是反派自导自演了。都没有一点悬念～
这几年的电影因为COVID-19的原因？逻辑呢！是制片方认为观众智力会下降，还是他们比以前更蠢了。BTW Chris Pine显老很多，停车场楼顶的对白能+1星
6.5分。很套路的一部电影，有些剪辑过于草率了，不过故事还是讲得可以的，起码动作部分干净利落看起来很得劲。克里斯派恩演得不错，本福斯特依旧很稳。
有个问题：本片为什么叫《承包商》，直接叫《喋血雇佣兵》或者《退伍老兵复仇记》不更直白吗？
动作和枪战场面一般，尤其是枪手骑摩托车掉水里那一段。
漏洞百出的情节、荒诞不经的逻辑，倒是满眼的大牌帅哥帅爷，可惜撑不起来场面
芯片植入跟升级一个套路，杂糅进去的桥段太多，看着热闹，没有爽感！
很典型的美国退役大兵电影。深刻的主题是国家、军队军人、至高无上的国家利益、和随意牺牲的个人利益之间的冲突，有些老套，商业电影，槽点较多，打发时间
印度版《美国队长》＋《白宫陷落》，两天看了两部印度商业爽片，其实都是抄好莱坞玩剩下的，但是相比较《野兽派特工》，这部还是合理很多，也装逼，但没那么装逼。
剧情老套，衔接莫名其妙，动作场面也没有特别，不知道看了啥。
引用片中一句台词：我们被训练成无情的适应性，就要用好它。所以，就有了这一群优秀退伍军人组成的雇佣兵，派到世界各地打砸抢杀，名义上是为了国家安全，其实为了某些人的个人政治利益。克里斯派恩在剧中的表现挺硬汉的。就想知道他的妻儿是否因为他的“牺牲”得到了那400万元？
克里斯和反恐局长都透出浓浓的憔悴感，还是年纪大了？
现代童话, 一个包容一切的母亲（jamie的控诉可能也是真心的)。各种会遇到的问题和家人以及周边的关系都浅尝辄止的点到了。This was me这一段我很喜欢，捯回去看音乐剧原来是新加入的。各有取舍，我都挺喜欢的，毕竟drag算是小众。
不算难看…但是这类型片在前珠玉太多了…确实算不上好看。男主人设除了突出家庭为重以外没有任何突出的情感和三观，出任务被背叛被救复仇仿佛流水线…整个过程中虽然杀了无辜的人同僚害死了恩人和朋友，但最后拿钱回家的微微一笑，仿佛一切都好起来了…还好是派派，要不可能还得少颗星。
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