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.
立意超高的电影，案中案，反转又反转，寻求正义的群众看完会高潮的那种爽片——只不过最后揭秘副警督和律师的背景那部分可以不要，对于一部宣传社会正义的价值观，应当是法理和道德律双重约束下的群体性正义，是如同片名（也是印度国歌）的《Jana Gana Mana（人民的意志）》，而不应当是因果报应这种玄学命理，那就格局小了；尤其是还要暗搓搓铺垫续集的引子，唉，那格局简直是开始歪了……
虽然冗长又有许多逻辑硬伤，但反转写得还不错，就是最后两位主角的身份揭秘太快太乱，完全可以剪掉前边很多重复的慢镜头来充实这部分，可以看得出主创的爱国心，印度电影开始走出自己的道路了，恭喜
律师一句句的质问真的就像导演的满腔赤诚，对这个国家发出的一声声呐喊，每15分钟就有人遭受不幸，为何只有她被看见了？反观我们，那些被看见的是不幸也是幸，网络以秒在更新热度，又有多少被遗忘。我们满足于获得“即时正义”，而鲜有人关心与追究根本。说到这，又要自省，是老师说的：坐在观众席我们有评论的权利，那我们敢踏进去吗？
文化要自信，先要放开约束，绑手绑脚怎么自信？绑人的在那喊自信有什么用？
2.用后即弃的白手套永远是底层
故事线和节奏都挺不错，后半部分庭审有点李狗嗨的意思了。不过就是镜头剪得有些碎，而且音效实在不能适应。
电影的主题意义很值得褒奖，虽然有点贪心得想用一个事件把印度的社会问题给尽可能多得给塞进去，女性地位，媒体操纵舆论，制度体系崩塌，政治黑暗，阶级种姓，校园剥削，可能还有我漏掉的，虽然多，但本质上的确是互相勾连的，这种激烈的方式也真的很容易得到共鸣，印度电影在政治选题上的民主自由度和韩影有的一拼，直接且血淋淋。
最明显的证据，就是以副督察为主角，围绕他编织的故事，反讽力度一般，而那些受害者面对的真正困境，缺乏有力的刻画和展现，那才是本片的核心诉求，只可惜再次沦落为故事技巧下的牺牲品。
电影揭露了一通他们体质的弊端，可最后的结果是消灭这万恶的体质吗？不是的！
希望国内有一天也能拍出这样畅所欲言的电影。
民意裹挟之下，何为真相？腐败的校园，阴暗的政治，法治的缺位。多重反转的结尾，何时社会才能真正民主
为什么印度男人都留胡子？学生VS警察，暴力冲突，不断升级。在良心面前，没有少数服从多数的法则。一个国家的尊严等同于给女性的尊严。歧视无处不在。政治的游戏，腐败黑暗的体制。感觉没结束呀，还有续集？
有一些缺陷，比较生硬粗暴，但一勇遮百丑，即使是洒狗血式的批判现实主义，也足够中国电影汗颜的了。
故事和反转非常精彩，内容深刻，发人深省，涵盖的主题从女性到媒体到正义到真相，再到制度，涵盖之广，令人嗔目，值得学习。但影片本身质量一言难尽，逻辑上bug到离谱，庭审上俩律师各说各的就离谱，剪辑叙事毫无水平可言，像是一篇全靠配乐烘托的大型PPT。
学会做减法是印度电影百尺竿头更进一步的最大难关。
可真相到底是什么？
印度电影，韩国都追不上了，一部电影将政治阴谋，种姓余孽，女性地位，权力操控，官僚贪腐，小镇做题家困境都涵盖了，反转接反转再反转，还审核通过了，最后辨方律师最后那段话，写到国内任何媒体都是马赛克。
看了这部电影，感觉好多电影都是在狗刨…编剧神绝…
一切不过是政治游戏而已
任何一个国家如何对待弱势，体力弱势、情感弱势、乃至地位弱势的人，那就是一个国家文明的底线。可是之类的电影看到太多了，尤其是韩国日本印度，却对于社会没有太多进步，仍然是女性权利最低的几个国家。不禁沮丧，电影能救个狗X啊。
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