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.
In short，电影大概就是前半段提了那个终极问题，后半段尝试去回答它；我想，大概有点“醒过来”的人至少都会有几次瞬间触碰到生命的真相——意识到人生终究不过是熵增定律下走向虚无的一场徒劳，然后不同的人创造、选择或者相信了不同的解释和意义，宗教、资本、权利、智识、爱好等等等等，只是这部片子给出的we are family之类的无条件爱对方这个解真的有点泛滥了，我只能代表我个人说sorry but not convinced.
1、趣味性：足够
人物的情感动机和行为逻辑都是垮掉的，支撑电影的是一地碎成渣的屎尿屁无厘头和炫酷特效，完全是好莱坞工业走到尽头的样子
3.心目中的2022年最佳电影。理解透了华人的矛盾情感，重视家庭，却又过度望女成凤。自己无奈妥协于现实，却又逼迫子女去做不想做的事情。这不就是黄皮肤版的《蜘蛛侠：平行宇宙》+《soul》。
我们真的需要用这么多不断更新的技术形式去诠释那些陈旧的、俗套的故事吗？即使拥有穿越平行世界的能力，人类的想象力也依然只能局限于回归“美好家庭？” 我不理解，但很多梗确实挺好笑的。
三星半。很简单的核心思想，填充过载的梗。看得我好累，头疼。
影片共鸣共情的地方真的太多，存在和虚无主义，唯物or唯心，爱与被爱，家庭纽带和独立，关怀牵绊还是放手，善良对抗暴力等等，瞬息间拨动心弦后劲实在太大，这是值得二刷三刷去玩味其中的奥妙。
看了5天才看完，豆瓣推出负一星吧，只有负一星才能治疗我看这片尬出的内伤，脚趾抓地把家里的地板都抓坏了
“I'm learning to fight like you.”
抱歉。
【A-】大半夜看到痛哭，what a beautiful chaos，感官和设定上的想象力已经很惊艳，更重要的是我太喜欢这个主题表达了，这是对“爱”曾感到绝望，陷入极度虚无主义式孤独的人才能写出的剧本。“爱赋予无意义的人生意义”这个哲学表达并不新颖也称不上高深，但能拍的这么动人且有趣味，真的值得我的一切夸奖。一部充满了希望，美好，力量的电影。我好嫉妒丹·关呐！
ps: 产房里医生那句sorry it’s a girl台词一出，电影院里的美国人都倒吸了口凉气，只有华人观众理解个中悲凉笑了出声🥹
她的丈夫没变，女儿没变，生活没变，一切都没变，唯一发生改变的是她看待事物的方式。
真正属于21世纪的电影，一切都是21世纪的，一部真正的杰作！太精彩了！绝对的时代精神！
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5/10 华裔二代翻来覆去得就爱讲这些破事 好像只有自己有糟糕的家庭 观念的冲突 我伤心我难过我是全宇宙最特别的存在 然而 同样的故事李安20年前就拍完了 且甩这代新ABC整块唐人街 最大看点多重宇宙像是某种莫名插入的异物 看到一半就索然无味 倒是对功夫片的重新演绎和东方面孔呈现的屎尿屁梗让人格外欢喜
想起以前自己在外不顺利的时候，妈妈喝醉了打电话过来，说对我工作最大的希望就是开心轻松，并能健健康康、欢畅快乐地生活着。我听着听着快哭了。而这次，我终于哭了出来。
第一次在电影院看到那么多的白人观影华人题材的movie
那两个石头坐在山谷里的点子真好啊。如果能不这么大团圆，看看虚无Bagel摧毁一切的样子就好了。
但是当我是某一个宇宙某一块孤零零的石头，我也好希望我妈在旁边。爆哭。
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