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.
从《末代皇帝》，到《最后的武士》，再到这部《最后的决斗》，三十多年来，曾经辉煌一时的古装大制作慢慢如他片名的定语一般，渐渐且随时准备在电影题材里告别。小导演是没有资本碰的，大导演也在票房的叫好不叫座的反馈中，渐渐成为了绝唱。
人们在伪女权哀怨的时候，忽略了残酷的第一道前提是男人要先死。女人的不忠，在生物学上是毫无损失的，相对来说，男性会被取消生物意义。真正的客观是考虑当时的生产条件，而不是用天堂的法则去管地狱的事
非线性章节故事从两个角色视角下手，因为一个女人的罗生门。中国有句古话：好吃不过饺子，好玩不过嫂子
剧本很扎实，不同角度讲一个故事如同现场听他们讲述很有代入感，最后的决斗女人为了尊严，男人为了面子。
男性为主要视角下，依然可以把女性主义融入得如此悄无声息。同样的故事不同的记忆，三遍描述却不觉得无聊，反而让你真正想去了解真相如何，电影越到后面越精彩，最后一章简直令人心碎。众人的欢呼声中，看着科默苍白又几无生息的面庞，不自觉地留下了眼泪。电影深刻地让人体会封建时代、男权社会对女性的压迫之深。 另外，决斗戏简直太精彩了，能把两个人的决斗戏表现得如此惊心动魄，实在要夸导演、摄影、演员和配乐，代入感超强，真的不自觉地心揪起来。 简单来说，决斗戏比沙丘的打戏大概好一万个无暇赴死的打戏。
罗生门与中世纪女性自我觉醒 如果作为悬疑故事的话 剧情尚未结束但比起导演另一部中世纪史诗巨作《天国王朝》还是差了点距离
雷老爷子太厉害了，能科幻能历史。三个所谓的真相，看到了男人物化女人，迷之自信的一脉相承，也看到了女人历来被物化，被作为男人的附属品的悲哀，即使丈夫为了妻子而决斗，却并不是为了妻子的清白，而是自尊心和体面。所有人，亦或是说所有男人，关心的只是决斗的精彩和男人的勇猛--无人关心真相是什么。女人却都默默知道却又只能默默承受。女性主义电影又一教科书式的作品，相信这部叫好不叫座的电影能够名垂青史。
黑灰色的历史背景里，偶有的路人，毛边更多抖落的是历史的灰尘。人物群像倒也不错。
剧情可以概括为：兄弟睡了老婆而引发决斗。从丈夫、强奸者、妻子三个视角切入重新打捞起故事真相。每个视角带着自身利益陈述同一个故事，又因角度不同与微妙细节偏差产生截然不同的导向。犹如海报里夹杂在刀剑相向的女性身影，从男性视角回归到女性视角，古装史诗的包装下发掘的却是女性在旧时代家庭社会中的卑微地位。在父亲眼里，她是嫁妆，是筹码，在丈夫眼里，她是财产，是生育的工具，在强奸者的眼里，她是发泄欲望的好看女人。她的命运仿佛穿越历史映照当今女性困境，借古讽今的窒息感扑面而来。
那两个男人为什么决斗？公平？正义？尊严？荣誉？家人？真相？……很可惜，都不是。真相令人唏嘘，结尾令人感叹——无论古今还是中外，身为一个女人，真的好难！
只有高潮才能怀孕的女人，额。被强暴与有快感是两回事。我的快感只属于我的丈夫。名不正言不顺，引爆花心也没用。第二段才是真相。中世纪的Me-too。三星半
角斗士+天国王朝。向天再借500年让老雷多拍几部中世纪题材的作品吧！有趣的是17年前天国王朝中的两位主角在本片中客串了一把 而女主角又让我想起了西西里的美丽传说中的玛莲娜 生而美丽就是女人的原罪呐。“微笑和好话比赤裸裸的威胁有用多了”玛格丽特是一个具有savvy/智慧的女人；“对男人来说权力是最重要的”母亲的教诲 中世纪与现代的家庭关系有啥不同？至少婆媳关系上看不出东西方有多大差异。本的台词太粗鄙 当看一部fuck不离口的中世纪题材作品总会有违和感。就全片来看，如果套用水浒传，这不就是林冲手刃陆谦的剧本吗，这一点东西是一致的：打我老婆和财产的主意就拿命来偿。从女性的角度能解读更多，但区区短评就不展开了。
不是罗生门式各个角度的诠释，而是同一个真相不同利益相关者各自的权衡。
刚开始以为是潘金莲故事，中间变成了罗生门，最后才是上帝的审判，人性的多面性和复杂性一览无余。在特殊的历史时期，人类的封建蒙昧做法还真是无奈的选择，看的让人揪心。最搞笑的是马特与大本演一对冤家对头，小马哥还给大本下跪，估计会笑场吧。
选角完美，演技过关，代入感强到令人窒息。罗生门叙事之作不少，但这么具讽刺意义的我只看过这部；男的，男的，女的("the truth")，忍不住笑了（然后在黑压压的真相面前立马笑不出）。
印象中正经描绘中世纪生活的电影不多
雷导还是功力稳健，《罗生门》的三幕结构，直到最后道破真相，把一个简单的角斗故事讲出新意。结尾字幕毫无疑问是点睛之笔：“她享受了30年的荣华富贵，始终不曾再婚”。
以及，在罗生门的叙事结构之下，这场最后的决斗有着惊人的说服力、情感基础和戏剧张力。
同一事件下不同视角的台词细微差别十分值得玩味。老雷巧妙地用一场中世纪最后决斗，谱写出一首女性主义哀歌。A child needs his mother, more than a mother needs to be right.
（7.0/10）这不是罗生门。罗生门式的叙事方式是没有倾向性的，是超越内容的，是淡化现实关照的。罗生门是上帝视角的，罗生门里没有善与恶，只有众生。老雷则是一位充满感情的作者。这次不是角斗士与天国王朝的老雷，这是末路狂花的老雷。前三分之二那两组矛盾表述的镜像并非构成了一个谜题，而是向我们铺陈了一个事实、一个由第三组表述正确映照的事实。女主的表述明显是异于前两组表象矛盾实则男权意味一致的解释的，也更加充满人性的温柔。历史细节的真相到此已经不再重要，观众所需要感知的只是那个时代对人类尤其是部分人类并不友好。此外，我其实是有点不喜欢这次的剧本的，每部分的差异还不够大，显得注水略多。
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