故事发生在一九五一年的德克萨斯州，欧美老牛仔桑姆（本·约翰逊 Ben Johnson 饰）在此地经营着一家电影院，欧美成为了当地年轻人们回忆里无法抹去的一笔亮色。高中生索尼（蒂姆斯·伯特姆斯 Timothy Bottoms 饰）和好友裘安（杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridge s 饰）是电影院里的常客，和桑姆亦是非常投机的朋友。索尼经历过几场无疾而终的恋爱，心灵深深受到了震撼，他和裘安同时爱上了热情奔放的女孩杰西（斯碧尔·谢波德 Cybill Shepherd 饰），然而杰西最终选择了索尼，这令裘安感到十分伤心，选择了离开。桑姆去世的消息带给了索尼很大的打击，在桑姆的电影院里，索尼和裘安一起看了最后一场电影，这亦是电影院所放映的最后一场电影。
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回复 :1958年，大跃进时代。钟叶平（秦怡 饰）任青龙水库党委书记不久，既制订出提前一年完成水库竣工的跃进计划。省水利局长陈超人（郑大年 饰）却认为此计划违背科学，不赞成实施。省委倪书记（陈戈 饰）却支持钟叶平的计划，让她组织干部群众调研，拿出可行方案。钟叶平和主观武断的陈超人等据理力争，党办主任苏士荣（鲁非 饰）向省委写信反映陈超人要扒开合拢囗的错误方案，脑羞成怒的陈超人准备撤消钟叶平的职务。关健时刻，倪书记来到工地，他通过调查了解，批评了陈超人等，受了批评的陈超人竟不顾施工安全，搞起“遍地开花”工程，造成溢洪陡坡大面积塌方，血的教训使陈超人受到严肃处理......
回复 :帅气的高中男校足球队队长约翰，与戏剧社中跑龙套的小演员提姆，两人携手面对过许多外界的歧视、批评，也曾在诱惑与忌妒间摆荡，相识相恋15年至今，原本以为他们的爱情已是圆满，直到爱无法解决的问题逐渐浮现，考验着他们之间的关系。
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.
