直接The City on the River is a tragicomedy about the ultimate triumph of human virtues in the face of systematic, institutional inhumanity.
直接The City on the River is a tragicomedy about the ultimate triumph of human virtues in the face of systematic, institutional inhumanity.

回复 :1929年的英国,惠特克太太(克里斯汀•斯科特•托马斯 Kristin Scott Thomas 饰)是贵族家庭的掌门人,她精心操持着家务,平衡着丈夫(科林•费斯 Colin Firth 饰)及两个女儿的关系。不过,一切却因长子约翰•惠特克(本•巴恩斯 Ben Barnes 饰)的归来被打破了。约翰闪婚的妻子是明艳动人的美国赛车手拉丽达(杰西卡•贝尔 Jessica Biel 饰)。她的很多行为都被正统的婆婆视为放浪。并且,两个女儿也看她不顺眼,替哥哥惋惜。拉丽达跟老公的朋友们前去兜风,别人优雅地骑马,她却驾驶着摩托风驰电掣。孤立时,她会跟公公吐露心事,两人甚至在舞会上翩翩起舞。这让事情演变为婆媳间的恶斗……本片改编自诺埃尔•考沃德的戏剧,克里斯汀•斯科特•托马斯凭借此片获英国独立电影奖最佳女配角奖提名,该片还被选作多伦多电影节的放映影片,杰西卡•贝尔在本片中首次献声。
回复 :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.
回复 :芝加哥又迎来了晴朗的一天,逃学高手菲利斯(马修?布罗德里克 Matthew Broderick 饰)自然不会在这天选择枯燥的测验,他伪装病重骗过父母,令同校的姐姐珍妮徒劳嫉妒。菲利斯找来好友凯伦(阿兰?卢克 Alan Ruck 饰),两人联手骗过训导主任罗宁,驾驶凯伦父亲珍藏的法拉利将菲利斯女友思朗接出学校兜风,菲利斯娴熟的电话骗术在凯伦和思朗的配合下将众人戏弄的团团乱转,学生们反而受他的影响颇深,在校内发起给菲利斯谎称的手术捐款。罗宁不堪忍受菲利斯一次次得欺骗,“微服私访”去校外希望能将菲利斯捉个正形,而在城中四处游荡的菲利斯三人则展开了一场隐藏自己身份的冒险……
