1928年美国洛杉矶，清楚在电话局接线台工作的克莉斯汀•柯林斯（Angelina Jolie 安吉莉娜•朱丽 饰）独自抚养儿子沃特（Gattlin Griffith 加特林•格里菲斯 饰），清楚母子的生活简单而幸福。然而她们的生活很快被打乱，某天当克莉斯汀下班后，发现儿子不见踪影。在公众的舆论压力下，腐败的洛杉矶警方于5个月后找回沃特，但克莉斯汀发现这并非自己的亲生儿子。她三番五次要求警方澄清事实，帮其寻找真正的沃特，却一次次受到阻挠和指责，甚至以妨碍警方公务的罪名被送入精神病院。一向以揭露警方暴行为己任的牧师古斯塔夫•布里格拉伯（John Malkovich 约翰•马尔科维奇 饰），为了这个可怜女人的不幸遭遇奔走呼告。另一方面，探员莱斯特（Michael Kelly 饰）在侦办一件偷渡案时，无意中发现了一起重大的连环儿童杀人案。少年沃特的失踪案似乎渐露眉目……©豆瓣
张曼玉
回复 :这部影片改编自真人真事，该事件在意大利可谓是人尽皆知。一名名叫艾伦娜-恩戈拉罗的年轻女子的生命将在17年的植物人状态之后结束，而意大利全国也因是否让其安乐死这个问题引发了一场争执。影片则通过几个拥有不同信仰和身份的角色来看待这个事件。一名参议员纠结于自己是否要为一项不赞同的法律投赞成票，他的良心和他对于自己党派的忠诚让他深陷矛盾之中。他的女儿玛丽亚则是生命维护主义者，她一直在艾伦娜就诊的医院前进行抗议。罗贝托兄弟则与玛丽的意见恰恰相左，但阴差阳错之间罗贝托与玛丽亚竟然陷入爱河.。.这是一个有关生命的议题。-
徐子源
回复 :Facing immigration issues, a couple must confront fears of rejection or risk losing each other.
左光平
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.
