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.
镜头的剪辑风格比较乱，想表现的视觉太多，但是为了伪纪录片的风格，又刻意安排太多日常的摄录源，甚至放大这些镜头做特写，慢镜回放一下还要调成黑白画面，原事件里的一家6口，改编成领养家庭，想塑造一个失败的母亲，一个喜当爹但几乎没有存在感的父亲，这里的角色关系没有呈现出一种日积月累的家庭问题，反而主线是作死三人组打破禁忌和报应，领养家庭的部分都只是报应衍生的事件
女主是六年前就被佛母看上了吧？所以她身边的人都死了，是她故意把诅咒分享出去救自己？直到没啥人能分享了，于是想起把女儿接回来，拍视频剪辑给网友，欺骗大家是为了救女儿，利用大家的同情心祝福女儿，其实是在骗大家分享诅咒。然而她发现自己慢慢爱上女儿了，而且佛母开始放弃她，盯上她女儿了，所以她才要去献祭自己释放佛母救女儿？
还好没再加恐怖音效
无神论者表示一点也不恐怖。不过最后的结局有点意思，名为神鬼实则人心。
2022-07-09
其实诅咒还好，没有感到晦气，恐怖片本来就是用来吓你的，你要信就说明他成功了。可是可能我已经对恐怖片基本免疫了，所以没怎么被吓到，不过片子里的很多视觉元素还是很不错的。
😅，with HunchoWebster, Barium
真服了，《咒》拍的是个什么破烂玩意，完全不吓人但属实恶心人，太晦气了，导演玩的就是QQ空间“不转发半夜鬼上床”的烂梗，看完只想赠予导演一个大比兜，拍鬼片就不能用心拍吗，这拍的是个🔨 ，故事稀烂套路下三滥，要恐怖不恐怖，要煽情不煽情，看完只能感觉所有观众都被诅咒了😅
对岸就是华语恐怖片的希望了，虽然“网红鬼屋探险”的套路已经用烂了，但整体依然比《中邪》强太多。顶级恐怖片就应该充满恶意和负能量，《咒怨》《午夜凶铃》皆如此。很多恐怖片都有亲情线，有的太尬太煽情（这种烂片太多了），有的太温暖又会冲淡恐怖氛围（比如《招魂》），而《咒》对亲情线的处理是最特别的，打破第四堵墙的方式也最有创意。其实很多优质恐怖片都可以拍得更吓人，导演不是没有能力，而是需要向商业和分级妥协。这类导演考100分，是因为卷面只有100分。
伪纪录片的形式确实很能增加真实感和代入感。里面的内容也是跟宗教信仰有关的，就是说有本土的东西在里面，其实是很不错的恐怖片了。
6.5分。看完下楼扔垃圾，也是两个人一起去的。
看了一些影评，女主的确是母爱和自私苟活参半的一个人，所以才能解释这一系列的录像和矛盾行为，不过导演通过视觉停留还有嫁接各种宗教元素的念咒和咒文给到观片人，的确感觉有点被冒犯到😓 不过还算不错的伪纪录元素的恐怖片~
話雖如此，片子開頭的氣氛營造的很好，視覺詭計、穿插的符號與暗示也滿有趣的。
民俗部分还行
因为胆子实在太小，所以本来没打算看，但是一大波的友邻评论 彻底激发了我的好奇，很想看看「看完了之后很晦气、谁看谁是大冤种」的电影是怎样的。六年前的一次宗教神秘小道的探险，记录探访之行的DV摄像机也成为了一个被诅咒的媒介体，只要看过DV内容的人 都会死于非命。伪纪录片的形式，让整部电影的气氛有一种莫名的真实感。虽然是一部有鬼怪之谈的恐怖片，但是所谓的诅咒咒语也不过只是导演自创的，用闽南话玩了个谐音梗，「火佛修一，心萨呒哞」其实就是「祸福相倚，死生有名」。女主角全片一直在反复的提示观众默念号称是祝福语的「火佛修一，心萨呒哞」最后实际上是愿意共享诅咒、献出姓名，这简直是把伪纪录片和心理学玩出花了呀！最终讲的还是一个母亲守护女儿的故事，看完之后甚至有一丝的感动，让我想到了小时候看的日本恐怖片《鬼水凶灵》。
镜头的剪辑风格比较乱，想表现的视觉太多，但是为了伪纪录片的风格，又刻意安排太多日常的摄录源，甚至放大这些镜头做特写，慢镜回放一下还要调成黑白画面，原事件里的一家6口，改编成领养家庭，想塑造一个失败的母亲，一个喜当爹但几乎没有存在感的父亲，这里的角色关系没有呈现出一种日积月累的家庭问题，反而主线是作死三人组打破禁忌和报应，领养家庭的部分都只是报应衍生的事件
3.5星。柯孟融透过时下最流行的直播视频/记录画面，揭露出影像的虚假性，及其制作背后的操纵性。正如女主角在误信邪教后，亲手将女儿献祭而策划的精心大戏，导演也利用了影像上各种视觉的把戏，向观众一步步植入神秘的民俗和宗教信息，从而让观众在一种恐怖片里体验到互动的滋味。
最后难道此片有意不支持生育吗？
如果你觉得晦气被冒犯到了那就说明这部影片成功地完成了它的用意。这种打破第四面墙的手法加上伪纪录片的形式给代入感加了双重buff。（我觉得真的对宗教信仰有点研究的不会这么轻易就相信被诅咒了吧，这只是部电影而已哈，赌气打低分情感上可以理解作为电影赏析我觉得无语😓）
非常好。
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