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.
虽然事先预料到会很失望，不过毕竟是期待已久的电影，还是把它看完了。我只能说，有些镜头挺美的，但是整体拍得一团混乱，满满都是尴尬之感
服化道声光电布景都很厉害，经典歌曲的演绎很好。但是Rachel Zegler担不起女主，像一个菲佣。全班主演拉垮，故事也很传统很中二，很蠢。Steven Spielberg一副王炸玩砸了。
小哥俩抢枪的那段明明是大晴天，为什么有一种倾盆大雨的既视感。6
没有感动只有尬，男女主身高型号差距大到时时出戏，没有任何荷尔蒙可产生，除了女二演技在线，整部影片就是一场灾难，还为了迎合政治正确硬加一个跨性别角色，真是够了！又浪费两个半小时
其实对原版就不太感冒 这个新版更多了一份尴尬
虽然事先预料到会很失望，不过毕竟是期待已久的电影，还是把它看完了。我只能说，有些镜头挺美的，但是整体拍得一团混乱，满满都是尴尬之感
但凡把套当下议题模板的心思花一半在调度上也不至于糟糕成现在这样，一种摄影机的见缝插针。
老版电影歌舞绚烂热烈，令人印象深刻，还横扫了34届奥斯卡10项大奖。不过那部影片拍法有点陈旧，舞台感很重，基本是把原版音乐剧搬上了银幕的感觉。
哈哈哈这个名字一看就很有吸引力，让人想去看
翻拍此片的重要性，除了當前多元化的文化環境外，實在找不出別的。斯皮爾伯格出手，技術質量一定不會差，可看性也不錯，但整體實在無法令人激動。
感觉都不算翻牌，连老电影的质感都一并“致敬”了，像是导演失去创造力后重新捕获的一条捷径。尽管年轻演员都还算卖力，故事也重新被赋予了新的背景，但是这不像是为当下的观众所拍的电影。从概念到导演手法到故事context，全部都非常过时。
其实我不太想再看一版西区故事，但考虑到他是斯皮尔伯格，还是得看一看。斯导的镜头和调度没得说，能够漂亮地重现一些经典场面。
在国家利益与善良内心之间最后选择了后者……同时也选择了悲惨的命运……老老实实去非洲多好……
本片既是惊悚片，又是心理片，着重展现了男主崩溃的过程，而他的命运似乎从开篇即已预告。——《法兰克福汇报》
★★★★★十颗星送给Mike Faist绝妙的歌舞和表演！两极交战的痛苦观感，精妙绝伦的调度、摄影、服装、编舞，舞台布景彻底转为cinema的催眠，只有复杂微妙深不可测的视觉技巧才能做到，旧好莱坞的回魂仪式徐徐掀起幕布。但是魔法师执着推移造梦轨道，星尘却荡然无存，驱动咒语失声在任何精确到毫厘的浪漫方程式都无法补救的男女主角化学反应的先天厄运，消音在顶级制作亦难以遮掩的致命唱跳短板，而翻新期许被不可抗力导致的错误选角和保守的种族性别的多重隐语移植再造所扑灭。不同于音乐优先的默认语法，肢体碰撞之间汹涌的爱恨世仇和喷溅的荷尔蒙成为叙事行进的鼓点和层次，瓦砾和盐尘破败颓废却生机灼热的美学表达呼之欲出。几段载入影史级别的典范配合回想起来只是因为有Mike Faist在其中。很遗憾，这本可以是一部杰作。
这是个什么鬼？恋爱脑男女主和他们的冤种哥哥和哥们儿？女主把认识两天的爱情看得比亲情都重要？新添的文戏有啥用？每一个配角都比主角好。斯皮尔伯格其实导得还可以，镜头什么的四平八稳，但大可不比整一部苦情虐恋街头版罗密欧与朱丽叶，并且还有不配字幕的西语。顺便一提，服装挺出彩。
总有一种歌舞和剧情撕裂之感，男女主角的存在感接近可有可无
鏡頭、調度、美術、燈光、節奏都超水準，目不睱給。第一個鏡頭已經展示實力，絕對沒有毀經典，有些位置甚至比舊版好（最明顯的超越在Officer Krupke一曲)，且比舊版更重羅密歐與茱麗葉的意味。若要挑剔，唯有說大多數角色臉譜化（Talia Ryder只有兩場戲的確讓人有點失望）。電影主題談移民和歧視，而且大大加重Trans角色戲份，在現代電影史中有標杆作用。若來年在奧斯卡最佳導演、最佳美術，甚至最佳電影有收獲我不會意外。
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这又是个啥玩意儿啊？斯导拍就这？演着演着就开始说西语了，是不想让人看懂吗？嫂子一个劲儿强调“请说英语”多到令人发指。还有那个老太太和男主演的让人觉得他们之间是爱情？？更扯淡的是，女主你嫂子爷们刚死，你背着她和人亲热不开门(最后一曲唱罢抱一起和解了…)？男主你兄弟死了你刚杀了人，说见一面就走然后就留下透批，透完又急着要走却不走这什么魔鬼剧情……在警局打一架然后到处刷存在感的我现在也不知道到底是男是女。结局前的魔鬼剧情让人看起来竟然会觉得嫂子玩了一把借刀杀人让tony以为mariana死了然后在自己死前看到对方没死……那他走的太憋屈了。看完后细想，男女主一见钟情二见相好三见定终身四见交融五见阴阳两隔这是什么进展……
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