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.
2022年奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳女主角非他莫属！居然没有入围奥斯卡，只能说明如今的奥斯卡越来越垃圾了！
牛啊桑婆牛啊！！这不得奖说不过去了吧！想念西雅图😢/不可饶恕的是做出了错误选择的自己
Everything in its right place 一出来的时候，我哭成狗。
四点五星。Sandra Bullock演技还是很有代入感的。揭晓真相的时候很震撼。女主和现任房子的女主人争吵的那一段太精彩了，she was only 5 years old 开始哭成狗。如果当初不那样选择，现在又该是怎样的光景？
看女主给养父母发火 真是无语。妹妹啊 这又是谁的错的？兄弟俩明显哥哥帅 果然戏份多些
为了亲爱的妹妹承担了一切也无怨言
整个作品的基调看上去就很清冷，这样的题材看的不多，但疑问是一直就有的，犯过事的人能不能在新环境获得重生。女主演技确实拿捏的很稳当，整个从迷茫到焦躁到最后的释怀都表现得淋漓尽致。虽然不疾不徐地看完了整个故事，但觉得稍微再精简下片长会更好。罚叔和金并两位差点没认出来。
感觉有希望冲击奥斯卡，冲着布洛克的演技多给一星。
Sandra的脸不知道为什么感觉已经经不起无妆特写了，但演技还是在的。ps：竟然取景在西雅图，亚马逊的球球还入镜了，无比熟悉
原谅我，让我觉得5岁小孩拿枪过失杀人这件事情，指纹也有。其实没有什么好隐藏的。也不会进入档案。或许还能因此让他去接受一些心理咨询。马上干预，效果最好。也不至于到这个小孩子长到十几岁还被噩梦缠绕。这个最初始缘由很牵强。
又是Sandra的一次影后级的表演。高潮在最后。
好完善工整的drama, 該飆戲都全給你我有噴淚到, 看完才知道有劇是嗎?(Unforgiven (2009)) 劇是不是更合適呀, 就是...完全不想挑剔什麼了...或許是這些都太美太帥太好看導致故事不對勁? 我不知道我覺得這樣的電影咻咻咻就看完了也有點遺憾的感覺
大冤+大爱，这是全人类共通的戏剧主题。很感人，桑德拉布洛克的表演很高级，把这份忍辱负重刻画得入木三分，谜底揭开的点也恰到好处，停止在姐妹相拥简直是太明智的选择，干净利落，余音绕梁。
它的故事让人想起《海边的曼彻斯特》，但多加了很多戏剧化的桥段，让它看起来很连续剧。
刑满释放的杀人犯真的只值得人们贬低鄙视吗？不管何时，欺凌别人的人都是丑恶的。
剧本太刻意了，在一众流水线作品中也算不上优质，评分明显过誉。
应该大数据推给岁数一大把还想生二胎～说想给已经长大该开始自己生活的老大添个伴儿的～父母
牛啊桑婆牛啊！！这不得奖说不过去了吧！想念西雅图😢/不可饶恕的是做出了错误选择的自己
表演状态很好，但是导演的剪辑能力、拍摄能力、还有讲故事的能力都just so so
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