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.
需要用分段方式展现的诡计不足以称之为诡计。最后的决斗戏便拍得极好，导演反复摆弄着有关“谁将死”与“谁该死”的悬念，在每个人的头顶上安放了一把达摩克利斯之剑。眼神的光芒黯淡了，表演的姿态坍塌了，识破诡计如此简单，于是更显得前两小时全是废戏。
风格很独特，50-70年代那些情节很intense，很震撼。tuoer转着相机，突然世界安静了，那个镜头特别好。整部片都非常有巧思。最后死去的两派hwb太高明了
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从《痴》《姑奶奶》到《椒麻堂会》，一路证明，邱炯炯是天才。
#LuciDallaCina2022 毫无发展且裹足不前的电影。
邱炯炯无疑是影像「文体家」，素人演员、搭建的舞台感十足的场景、内在的悲剧感混杂着荒诞和（黑色）幽默都是他的语法，以抵达一种恰好的（甚至如履薄冰般的）tone。新戏从来演旧事……生死不外两茫茫。为了活着，伶人总是在唱堂会；为了忘记，还要孟婆汤续杯。洪流般时代下的个体之人，黄泉路上吃吃饱搓个麻将吧。
有没有让鬼变回人的方法？
部分剪辑不够用心（采血任务布置了两次），部分低幼笑点有拉低分数。
新作者登场，手工奇迹，这个时代难见的珍稀品。已见与未见的集体之殇混合私人记忆，回荡在阴阳虚实明暗、严肃嬉笑怒骂之间。平面置景好比戏台，台上台下台前台后都在“照镜”，每一场戏都在“结晶”。这些晶体并非完美无瑕，我看前面还有些难入戏，建国后的部分是越看越入迷。
看完电影再扫扫评论区的评论不觉想笑:
一幅横向移动的卷轴 #MoMI screening
画风业界天花板，剧情算是小boss给炭治郎练练手
這真是馬丁蓋爾歸來式的微觀文化史著作一樣的電影，以後如果教相關內容真的可以讓學生看看。法庭這種特別微觀史的部分都拍出來了而且不枯燥，老雷也太厲害了。三個人三個視角各拍一遍是有點拖沓，但這種拖沓加懸念的效果在最後的決鬥部分迎來了總爆發，看得非常有張力和驚心動魄，可以算是這種古裝片的一種巨大的突破吧。
震惊于这样一部艺术的作品，却毫不枯燥。3个小时把人按在座椅上，看着新又新的剧团几十年流过眼前，微小与宏大呈现出异常的真实。
补个分，看这段的时候真的有股很强的即视感，在外务工的丈夫跟家里断了联系，背着孩子的妻子去城中寻找丈夫，却发现丈夫已经另组家庭。
真的是很妙，用舞台的形式却能表现这么丰富的故事，还以牛头马面带着走黄泉路来展开，导演还是很有想法的。
这期战斗说，只要说出那个人的名字就得死，到了十二鬼月也说那个人的名字，只是加‘大人’的称呼就不死了？
影片以章节式的结构，从三位主角的角度出发，讲述了这一著名的真实事件。剧本稳扎稳打，恢弘的场景和配乐一瞬间恍惚到《权力的游戏》。
看得想手撕Adam Driver🙃这哪是什么中世纪，明明就是活生生的当下。
影像变迁史和中国近代史交汇，在私人记忆和戏曲艺术的视域中发生形变，却又始终有对于人、事、物真挚饱满的情感作为连接片中小世界与当下现实的绳索。
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