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.
桑德拉的演技多到要溢屏，故事就算了，太平，浪费了她的出色演技。一个不算出色的梗，拼命用！就是有桑德拉，也不行！
①是有机会成为一部优秀剧情片的，可惜剧本问题多多。试举几例：警长的大儿子一开始是理性男，力劝小儿子不要去找刚出狱女主的麻烦，但和女主见了一面，只因女主说要重新开始生活，就立刻180度转弯，要报仇雪恨？20年了，出事时还是小屁孩的他们，如此大仇有足够说服力吗？②真相到结尾才告诉观众：是女主五岁的妹妹开的枪，女主为她顶罪服刑20年，合理吗？妹妹当时年龄尚小，请问顶罪有何意义？③对女主有好感的男同事这条线，缘何不了了之？④大儿子被小儿子戴了绿帽，盛怒之下就去绑架了女主的「妹妹」？这样的情感转移合理吗？绑架之后电话把女主叫来，大儿子的诉求是什么？当女主面干掉「妹妹」？那自己铁定牢狱之灾，这叫报复吗？……bug太多使得情节的合理性很成问题，更重要的是，人物的性格都没法立起来，明显是为了情节的走向，硬掰人物行为。
描述底层白人真实冰冷的生活，充满爱和挣扎。桑德拉·布洛克会是今年奥斯卡最佳女主吧 演技绝了
人物动机无法自洽，既然花了二十年又无比执着地想走近现在妹妹的生活，兄弟复仇、出狱困境等支线有点隔靴搔痒。ps：桑德拉.布洛克演得真好。
小孩杀人 应该属于过失 应该不会被判刑（个人看法，或者姐姐为了“全面”保护 也未可知） 有些场面很生硬，全靠主角一个人堆砌的剧 肖邦第一叙事曲 很符合这故事
话说怎么有这么多片子都叫“不可饶恕”啊
可是5岁的小孩子真的能扣得动扳机+瞄准脑壳吗。。。桑婆近乎完美的演技再一次征服了我，褪去和基努第一次搭戏时的稚嫩青涩到现在的精湛演技，桑婆值得第二座小金人！
老套剧情也是 奈飞破电影 真他妈好哭 ciao
自己默默承受一切的負面，只為保護自己最愛的人，結局暖心。
桑德拉·布洛克的演技，从一声“its u？”就可以穿透人心，面对世界始终冷厉，面对误解保持沉默，都融化在了这一声的无尽温柔中。凝练的故事，内敛的情绪，该说的没说的想说的都在这儿了。
典型的美影了，摄影和道具经费充足，明亮又丰富；剧情和角色不能更假更硬，就跟空心的硬纸板子一模一样。一个女主八百个男人围在身边搭救，老公猪都不吃的糠。
剧情虽然不是很有新意 但是镜头太过真实 大脸特写特别给力
形式到位了，但是剧情还差了点。一些零碎拼凑起来的东西没有很好地把更深邃触动的东西表现出来，同时也缺少情感爆发点。
前半段十分平淡，一度让人不知道想具体表达什么，从头到尾渲染了一种压抑、沉重的现实压迫，好在后半段的反转直接拔高了本片的内核，让人直呼生活的艰难但又仍然充满着希望。
碰巧看过本片导演的上一部长片《系统破坏者》，节奏掌控很高级了，当然剧本好才是真的好。
很压抑，幸亏除了那位老警长以外，再没有死人，尤其没有死无辜的人。几个头绪安排得脉络清晰，流畅。布洛克“自毁形象”，赞！
9分 2021.12.19 桑德拉布洛克演的真是很稳 低沉 压抑 加上汉斯季默的配乐真的很绝配
她承受了生命不可承受之重 她挽救了三个年轻人的一生 最后一幕感动了
三星半吧。演技一下子抓住人心，让你跟着她一起悲伤克制愤怒。虽说剧情上不是那么完整，妹妹部分有些缺失，但是好像这就是主角角度的人生片段~
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