Whenever I see La Paura I think of it as a companion piece to Eyes Wide Shut, or maybe it is the other way around. Adultery makes both films tick but in different ways. I think Phillip French was right on the money when he pointed out a Wizard of Oz thing in Kubrick's last work. Like Dorothy, Tom and Nicole go through fantasies and nightmares and at the end Dorothy's reassuring childish motto "there's no place like home" is ironically updated to the adult circumstantial adage "there's no sex like marital sex". Kubrick's take is intellectual, he never leaves the world of ideas to touch the ground. He taunts the audience first with an erotic movie and then with a thriller and refuses to deliver either of them. He was married to his third wife for 40 years, until he died. Rossellini was still married to Ingrid Bergman when he directed La Paura; they had been adulterous lovers and their infidelity widely criticized La Paura is a tale, a noirish one. The noir intrigue is solved and the tale has a happy ending. The city is noir; the country is tale, the territory where childhood is possible. The transition is operated in the most regular way: by car, a long-held shot taken from the front of the car as it rides into the road, as if we were entering a different dimension. Irene (Bergman) starts the movie: we just see a dark city landscape but her voice-over narration tells us of her angst and informs us that the story is a flashback, hers. Bergman's been cheating on her husband. At first guilt is just psychological torture but soon expands into economic blackmail and then grows into something else. From beginning to end the movie focuses on what Bergman feels, every other character is there to make her feel something. Only when the director gives away the plot before the main character can find out does he want us to feel something Bergman still can't. When she finds out, we have already experienced the warped mechanics of the situation and we may focus once again on the emotional impact it has on Bergman's Irene. In La Paura treasons are not imagined but real, nightmares are deliberate and the couple's venom suppurates in bitter ways. Needless to say, Ingrid has another of her rough rides in the movies but Rossellini doesn't dare put her away as he did in Europa 51, nor does he abandon her to the inscrutable impassivity of nature (Stromboli). His gift is less transcendent and fragile than the conclusion of Viaggio in Italia. He just gives his wife as much of a fairy tale ending as a real woman can have, a human landscape where she can finally feel at home. Back to the country, a half lit interior scene where shadows suggest the comfort of sleep. After all, it's the "fairy godmother" who speaks the last words in the movie.
在我这种没有艺术细胞的人眼中，就是个不太有意思的舞台剧，主角刺杀国王夺权然后被推翻的故事，带了点魔幻色彩。
非常享受的电影，舞台仪式感好强，音效特棒，黑白摄影牛逼。演员演的过瘾，我们看的也非常爽，太短了，意犹未尽。希望科恩兄弟联手再把莎士比亚电影继续拍下去。
几何带来视觉上的分割感和冲突矛盾感，在动车上看的，即使噪音很大，前半段麦克白与夫人的联手行刺还是把我看得心惊肉跳，偏向于动作呈现，后半段相较就少了推动力，之前犯下的罪恶使得后面的悲剧发生水到渠成。惯性与命运。怕啥来啥。
除了布景，该版本麦克白在女巫的两个“文字游戏”被揭开之后并未呈现出丝毫动摇，而是一条道走到黑似的面对任何结局。这已经是不小的改动了。
英语级别低者不友好，我就是。
仿佛看了一个舞台剧，黑白片也不显得沉闷。喜欢配乐，另外表白弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德，如果不是三封了，也许阿姨还能再来一个奥提
这部已经用了这样的主创，还是不得要领。
极简场景和摄人光影是本片独特气质的最大贡献者，其余部分没什么亮点。空镜最震撼
极简服化道，剩下的就全是细节和特写，相当托华盛顿和科恩嫂的表演。他们完成地非常出色。连女巫都演得出彩。相较之下，演麦克迪夫的黑人演员很逊。
就当看个实景拍摄的名著电影吧。黑白色调拍出了惊悚，也奠定了悲剧气氛。预言式定场的套路看来中外皆同，不过麦克白更多的像是角色明知道结局却被魔鬼牵引着走的无奈，而中国则是不知道结局，莫名其妙走向结局的无奈。还是有所区别。(ps：个人可能还是无法接受所有的心理状态都通过语句展现，如果部分的心理状态能通过语句说出来觉得更靠谱点，而且觉得如果情感不剧烈却说心理状态也挺影响演员的面部表情和表演的。所以感觉莎翁剧看剧本还好，一还原到舞台或电影就不大看的进去了。最后那个麦克白不怕女人生的咒语被打破的原因比较喜感）
可以但没必要的创作。极简风加照搬原本 有着表现主义的装置 打光，整体还是缺少电影“纵深感”的舞台化。 最缺失的其实是对于人物动作的视听设计，除了固定镜头 只有傻傻的跟拍。 唯独的亮点是把麦克白内心的那把利刃 给合理的视觉化，达成双重隐喻 这才是独属电影的，可惜这样的设计太少。
科恩重演莎翁，在多版本的《麦克白》改编中，能否排得到前列恐怕还是打个问号。但是影片在风格化和形式感上确实做得十分出彩，精美的黑白影调干净、简洁、漂亮，渐进地模糊了戏剧与电影的界限，视觉享受直接拉满。
演员们的演技令我叹为观止。
2.干练，自超现实的场景陈设，至字正腔圆的台词编改，在景别的变化，人物的走位，场景的转换中用很是简洁的手法勾勒出麦克白本身的力量。
Shakespeare Four Tragedies之一的Macbeth在過往的文學作品以及影視作品都算為一篇被改編到爛了的菜市場作，A24企圖交出完全不一樣的Macbeth
终于看了浸入式戏剧Sleep No More原型的莎士比亚剧《麦克白》的故事，不过黑白片+1.19:1的画面比例让影帝影后失色不少。还是重新发行成全彩+全屏吧！听说这个弑君故事还有一个2015年的电影版，Michael Fassbender+ Marion Cotillard主演。
纽约电影节开幕片，见到了Joel Coen, Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand。坦白说台词几乎一句都没听懂，莎士比亚般的对白实在考验听力，而且这场好晚好晚，开头有点昏昏欲睡。喜欢打光和摄影，结尾的设计。这部真的没有太多“科恩”的感觉。
醉乡民谣的合作摄影
在舞台上固定的布景在影片中随机位可以产生无穷光影变化，在舞台上是减法的极简风格在电影中可能变成加法。画幅，构图，光影和线条的形式美感冲击和新奇的效果分散了对人物的关注，让莎翁文采也显得冗长乏味。女巫第一次出现和预言的动作造型印象深刻。
科恩兄弟分道扬镳的首次创作?少了编剧的科恩套了莎翁的核。剧情就摆在那，多数人看的是能拍成啥样。不得不说，电影营造的美学是科恩兄弟一贯的风格。延续了莎翁中繁复的对白而不显生硬，对特定场景进行了美学构建，灯光，氛围，视觉冲击是最大的亮点。采用黑白小荧幕是对经典的致敬，毕竟现代五彩的装束无法带来美学的提升，反而减分。但是呢，剧情羸弱是软肋。且和戏剧的ETA（镜头下的戏剧）差不多。对比最近看的俄狄浦斯王，皆是可戏剧的悲剧。过去时代的人，宿命仿佛有特别的吸引力，无法抵抗，越是抵抗越是无法逃脱。这就是宿命。是国学里的天道。无法描绘而又时刻面对。在延伸一个话题，复仇似乎是人类大部分人的使命，是每个人怜悯之心的希冀。只有看到血债血偿，观者才得以解脱。我们平庸的生活时刻被带入角色里寻求心的精神安慰。
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