转学生麦丝为了赢过富家女伊莉莎白，日韩向其下西洋棋的战帖，日韩日后她偶然在公园遇见棋艺精湛却个性古怪的老先生诺曼，她拜託诺曼教导她西洋棋的技巧，要赢得人生这场棋。麦丝在转进私立女校的第一天，发现同学们都是富家千金，家境清寒的自己受到了排挤。为了不让努力维持家计的父母操心，她决定撑下去。麦丝选择了西洋棋社作为课后社团活动，对西洋棋一无所知的麦丝却受到富家女伊莉莎白的羞辱，一气之下，麦丝公然向伊莉莎白下战帖，因为她知道除非赢过伊莉莎白，否则麦丝就别想在学校有好日子过。回家路上，麦丝偶然在公园遇见棋艺精湛却个性古怪的老先生诺曼，她拜託诺曼教导她西洋棋的技巧，期望能在比赛上赢过伊莉莎白。诺曼将人生视为一盘棋，每颗棋子不是朋友就是敌人。诺曼还教导麦丝人生战场不可能单打独斗，要赢得人生这场棋，唯有在纽约市寻找答案。纽约，不仅将帮助麦丝赢得棋赛，还找回了麦丝自己的人生。
安以轩
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.
艾斯特吉芭托
回复 :本片根据鲛人之泪的古代传说，结合奇幻武侠元素，讲诉了一个欲望产生原罪，恩怨相生的故事。昆仑门的掌门之子姜天阳一心想要夺取掌门之位，并为此修炼邪功元墟大法，联合鲛人洛夕杀回昆仑门复仇，却发现是非颠倒，善恶逆转。而他也因为修炼邪功而走火入魔，被反派所控制。为了拯救爱人，洛夕牺牲自我，并用最后一颗鲛人泪化解了姜天阳的邪功。本片用罗生门似的几重反转，表达了是非善恶对立和统一的观点，极端偏执的情感会促使悲剧的产生。故事里的主人公从一开始的为了夺位复仇，到认识了贪婪会产生原罪，并成长为行侠仗义的侠客，体现了英雄成长的心路历程。片中的女主角在危机关头放下仇恨，牺牲自我帮助男主挽救了危机，在悲剧中讴歌了宽容、无私、奉献、的爱情主旋律。
回复 :黑社会老大阿关（梁家辉 饰）事业不错，家庭却一塌糊涂：儿子Sid（房祖名 饰）是个摇滚叛逆青年，一心想继承老爸的事业；女儿Sina（何超仪 饰）是宠物医生，和同事Michael谈恋爱，和老爸的生活格格不入。Sid因为抢另外一个帮会老大老马（曾江 饰）的女人Carmen（郑希怡 饰），不得不逃到台湾偏僻的山区避难，和他一起的还有阿关的得力助手阿照（张耀扬 饰）在台湾，Sid加入了禅鼓山人，改名阿道，认识了鼓队中的女孩红豆（李心洁 饰），在鼓队朴素的生活中获得了心灵的平静；阿照也在社区学校上课，找到了人生的目标。在香港，因为Sid的出逃，阿关生意受到了影响，但也因此和女儿Sina和解，接受了她的生活和感情。同时，禅鼓山人世界巡演开始，第一站就是香港。当Sid和父亲阿关渐渐互相了解，开始冰释前嫌，阿关却在监狱中被暗杀。Sid简单的生活被打破，社团的生意、和老马的恩怨接踵而至，他如何面对这一切？
