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.
女主太丑了，穿得衣服也难看，背景乐诡异难听得要死，故作高深，但是风景是真美，然后光影交错下的雕像面孔是挺诡异吓人的，导演如此丑化男性，搞性别对立，都去搞百合吧，真是居心叵测，很垃圾的一部电影。
最大的问题是无法进行完整双层解读，深层文本的女性困境表达很清楚，但表面现实物理逻辑很难解释清楚，例如男人如何入侵手机？还是蒲公英的致幻效果吗？如果单纯用奇幻或者魔幻来解释中后段的一系列场景，或者只是发生在内心的阴影，那女主闺蜜的戏份又该如何解释？她的视角中是只有物质世界的结果，例如撞车以及血迹。当然后半段的裂手和套娃都太精彩了。
感觉隐喻很多 没有全部看懂 但是最后那几次蜕化视觉值得加一星 又恶脑洞又大
如果把所有意指符号都很清晰地堆砌在观众脸上，那么这部片就既不算是诡异浪潮，也称不上心理恐怖，而是很无聊的形象政论吧。不过，如果能把这部片子介绍给大陆男宝看看也是不错的，起码能让他们理解一下女性对男性的恐惧从何而来，然而大陆女性要面临的问题可不是人家西方后现代社会那样简单。
加兰（本身就是“花环”哈）真是很会拍植物/静物那种幽静诡异的美。这部的美感似乎比湮灭更胜一筹。配乐也很加兰，风格逐渐固定突出好辩识。最后的奇观确实让人发指，有一种无法直视是慢悠悠地特写皮开肉绽。更无法直视的可能是选角：不仅男主复制出了N个，男主和女主这两个人也长得非常像，放在这样的故事里诡异感指数级增加 …
长焦镜头，背景的纵深虚化，有一种莫奈的感觉，加一星给某些情绪性的画面，氛围的营造，心理的递进，还有最后一幕是不是要成为名场面：女演员见到男人反复“新生”，就像男人反复说自己已改过，女人表情麻木轻蔑，也如观众对这种“把戏套路”的厌恶.
看到拉斯冯提尔《反基督者》的影子。后半段垮了点，3.5
影调有一点刻意
回热评里某条：没有人在逼你成为一个怪物，而是你本来就这个样子。无法接受被拒绝的事实，无法管理自己的暴力倾向，无法学会保持边界感，无法理解她人的恐惧，无法接纳自己自恋受损的自负心，于是开始harass、threaten、bully、用narcissistic rage以期挽回一段早就结束的关系，这是单方的妄想，而非双方的同意。片子都讲这么清楚了，居然还发现不了自己的行为举止有多toxic，那八成是心盲了🥶
还挺直白的性别惊悚片，导演致力于创造的cult奇观，从语言暴力，宗教，性，生殖等方面表现女性所受到的压迫。正因为是放在一个乡村离群索居的环境中，所以比较单薄，而现实生活中性别议题的复杂性更强，显得本片比较傻直。千男一面的演员罗里·金尼尔已经是英国影视变态男专业户了，没想到还能继续拓展变态的阈值，我也是有被惊到。本片对他的考验主要是生理层面的，感觉有些场景相当累人，但可惜在导演对于心理的恶探讨不足。
后三分之一太精彩的cult片。男女权的对立，不过是想要被爱的证明。本来以为是女导演写的故事，没想到是男导演，好像一切又都说得通了。相当惊喜的恐怖片。
抛却剧本/故事后的概念/设定先行 但也并非是影像化的 只是纯粹某种猎奇式的展现 将自然与男性嫁接在一起仍然在强调强和弱的二元对立 更是一种生态主义的滥用
男权社会下男性是如何一步步长成令女性恐怖的样子，到最后美名其曰得到你的爱，实际就是精神和肉体的双重绑架，女性恐怖片根本不需要超自然，真实男性就可以了
Alex Garland作为男性导演首次拍摄女性电影，还是太浅薄，所以倍显无聊（当然，女性可能会更感同身受）。大量无用沉冗的镜头，过于单一的摄影和调度，以及令人不安、随机出现的配乐，对于氛围营造和剧情推进都毫无用处。很像《我想结束这一切》（女主都是Jessie Buckley演的），但可解读性和情绪把控远不如它，美学也略弱于它。Jessie和一人分饰多角的Rory演技不错。控制、暴露、暴力、伪善、保守、无脑、羞辱，男性劣质层层套娃，一星给最后的cult场面（虽然《停尸房收藏》已出现过男性生子，且cult迷表示没有特别被shock到）。然后就是，我就想看个走心不偷懒、聪明有创新的恐怖片，咋这么难？（叹气）
单从技术层面分析，A24与亚历克斯·加兰这次完全可以凭借《Men》在2022恐怖电影界「独领风骚」了。极致的视听语言与几乎完美的恐怖氛围营造，称其为「盛宴」亦不足为过。前半程用「文艺片」手法铺垫，带有强烈「创伤感」的人物塑造及镜头感、配乐都非常高级。最后的爆发亦「精彩纷呈」，恐惧催生出恐惧，暴力孕育出暴力，十分钟的视觉呈现几乎可以封神。从内容上看，电影带有强烈的「恐男」特质，但相比较其他低级、刻意、无趣的刻画与塑造，《Men》赢在了视听语言上。至于其传递的主题与私货本质，和其他同类作品并无两样，说粗俗点，都一个B味。三星全给技术组，内容一星不值。
嗯没看懂。电影里男人的意识和言语好恐怖，女性的社会处境，包括不限于窥视，裸露，秽语，家庭暴力…取景很美，自然和生育，非常多的奇怪意象。
连环生育是男性本质缺陷不断复制的隐喻，而男性却将一切归罪于女人；女人唯有拿起斧头，把自己的主体性从男人无止境的凝视中砍出来
一个男人 地脱身换骨多少遍才能得到女人的爱
補標4.5顆✨，一部充分展露男性真實陰暗面的cult恐怖片，中途由於冒冷汗，感到極度不適，暫停了觀影許多次。無論任何人（尤其是女性）都能在生活裡從周圍男性身上看見他們典型的人格特質，無論是拒絕divorce威脅家暴無果後跳樓的亡夫、一臉忠厚樣客氣卻笑裡藏刀的男房東、尾隨女主闖入私宅的暴露癖、具有攻擊性的問題少年、古板偽善（厭女又渴pussy）試圖強姦女主的牧師、隨處可見（認為女性受害者總是小題大做）十分masculine的男警官💁🏻♀️……預定年度最佳恐怖片🫣。
回热评里某条：没有人在逼你成为一个怪物，而是你本来就这个样子。无法接受被拒绝的事实，无法管理自己的暴力倾向，无法学会保持边界感，无法理解她人的恐惧，无法接纳自己自恋受损的自负心，于是开始harass、threaten、bully、用narcissistic rage以期挽回一段早就结束的关系，这是单方的妄想，而非双方的同意。片子都讲这么清楚了，居然还发现不了自己的行为举止有多toxic，那八成是心盲了🥶
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