通往生活的旅行证

Coming as it does from the depths of the Stalinist regime, the Russian Road to Life is a remarkably optimistic film. A host of nonprofessional children are cast as Moscow street kids, left homeless by the Bolshevik revolution. They get into all sorts of melodramatic scrapes until they're rounded up by kindly, altruistic Soviet functionaries. The children are reformed (in the nicest possible way) and made useful members of society. Road to Life is simplistic in its solutions to society's problems, albeit no more so than the usual Hollywood product from the same period.,今日初来乍到，厨房里只有米面和一些耐贮存的调料。两位厨子手脚利索，一个揉面擀面，另一个迅速出院子去买了几样新鲜菜蔬，做了一锅热汤面，配上边城特有的卤牛肉。晚饭简单又美味。……