Wednesday, January 23, 2008

[Karel Kachyna|Vlak do stanice Nebe]開往天堂的列車

Title:Vlak do stanice Nebe
aka:The Train to Heaven Station
Director:Karel Kachyna
Release Date:1972
Genre:Drama / War
Country:Czechoslovakia
Language:Czech
IMDb

簡介。。。。。
The first movie I have ever seen
This is the first movie I have ever seen in my entire life. I had 4 years at that time and when my father asked what would I like to do next (it was my birthday) I said: I want to see it again. So we saw the film to times in a row. This film is about two boys in occupied Checozlovaquia and have powerful images that still round my mind. It reminds mi of The 400 blows and other classics in the French Nouveau Vague movement. Even though I saw it almost twenty years ago, some of the images in this film are part of my mind right now: a beautiful boy lost in the woods, a girl crying when the mother is cutting her head, the snow (being Mexican, I have never seen the snow in my life) and of course the beautiful golden light of those locations in the East of Europe. I really invite anyone interested in cinema, not only East Cinema, but Art Cinema in general, to watch and enjoy this beautiful diamond about love, freedom and friendship.

Another Czechoslovak gem
I too remember this film from my childhood. Another Czechoslovak gem, just like Three Gifts for Cinderella (Tri Orisky pro Popelku) that was a frequent part of my boyhood holidays. In Britain it was split into a 3 part series and narrated, and called either The Train to Heaven or The Train to Station Heaven (as in the Czech title). My memory of it is hazy now, just a whirl of strange moments....snowy landscapes, a headless horseman, the girl having her long hair cut, boys picking their way over railway tracks....God knows what it was all about but I remember enjoying it as a child and it obviously made an impression. I would love to see it again if it were released on DVD/VHS.
(From IMDb)

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。推薦指數:7.4/10
一部關於二戰中小孩子的影片,故事發生在1944年。Kachyna執導,TVrip,沒有字幕,所以只能看個大概意思。故事講述了一個漂亮的小男孩和一個可愛的金髮小女孩純潔的友誼和他們對自由的嚮往。如果將來有D版的話,我一定會再看一遍,因爲孩子們之間可愛的對話我都聼不懂。

我更感興趣的是Kachyna的電影語言。圖案變幻的玻璃花窗,警報緊急地響起時如雪花般飄落的羽毛,童話般的冰雪國度中一群可愛的孩子乘坐著列車去上學,小女孩家裏各種各樣的有點像圖騰般的木偶玩具和轉眼睛的太陽風車,女孩滿地蘋果的房間,放在小城堡裏的小白鼠,女孩夢中騎著白馬的無頭騎士,被老師強迫剪掉長髮的女孩子們······最精彩的部分就莫過於男孩把火車頭偷偷開出來,兩人小孩在火車上五彩繽紛的想象與狂歡,可愛得嘆爲觀止。畢竟這是一部描繪孩子的喜劇,所以即使是緊張的戰爭情節,導演也放棄了緊迫的氣氛,不溫不火地講述這個關於孩子的故事。




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