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.
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Rylance吊打一众卡司的水平（舞台剧感确实太重了呃（不过johnny flynn这次演的挺好
如果不追求完美，就做不出好东西。
“裁缝，一直在听，从不说话。但从没有人想过：他心里在想什么。”
可能是戏外的东西赋予了这部电影更多，北野武的传奇人生，和师傅悲剧性的结局，甚至包括『剧团一人』这个又是艺人出身的导演，他来诠释这部片子，在戏里戏外都堪称完美。看电影的时候无数次想，这剧本应该只能是导演写出来的，镜头语言很好，最后的梦回剧场的长镜头调度我可太喜欢了——而想看这部电影竟然是因为在奥黛丽的访谈节目里看了番宣采访……里面有很多关于表演的名台词，包括各种呼应的伏笔，以及让人笑中带泪的装傻。师傅师娘的感情线也很好嗑，女主角是火花中的女主，演技真的是。。。太好了，相比之下男主有点被虐了。
剧本很好，反转干脆，结尾利落，伏笔耐人寻味
英国演员真是充满惊喜
严格满足三一律的老派话剧电影。剧本出彩，观感上佳。
不错的英式小品，还顺便致敬了希区柯克，结尾减一星
在封闭空间，仅用台词和表演和三五个人就拍出了一部黑帮犯罪悬疑片，节奏非常好，用戏剧小成本的方式演绎出警匪几方势力博弈、背叛、勾结、牵制的潜在戏码，而这些统统用“嘴”表现出来，文本的胜利。
生存之道：既要套，也要装。
6.0；北野武师徒情，很真挚的感情。一大败笔是年轻的北野武也面部抽搐，这明明是他90年代车祸面瘫的后遗症啊。不过最后老年版北野武的化妆惊到我了，达到以假乱真的地步。
师父选择坚守舞台，徒弟选择追逐掌声。时代更迭之下，成王败寇似乎一早注定。但一脉相承的对技艺的自豪与尊重，又让师徒二人跳脱了成败的俗论，无论是留在时光里还是走入新光圈，都让我敬佩！浸润在生活细节中的浓浓情谊，师徒间、恋人间、友人间、搭档间，让我几度红了眼眶。
3.5吧。故事挺过瘾的，单一场景小制作悬疑。但未免过于精雕细琢，设计感太强，情感浓度不足。气质有点像《利剑出鞘》。老头的戏当然不错，但没有达到他个人最佳水平。
说白了，就是杀人游戏，用嘴炮在人心里做文章，不过呈现的弯弯绕还不算复杂，求助场外这“道具”也太好使，甚至还觉得扮猪吃老虎没过瘾，最后来那么一下也有点破功。片中有一段时空接续的平行蒙太奇倒是蛮灵光。
朋友们，这个太好看了！哈哈哈哈哈是我喜欢的类型！紧凑、吸引人、还带着黑色幽默，演员演技都很在线，台词、剧本一切都很好，重点是，106分钟！这在现在动辄两个半小时的坏风气里多讲究啊！好看！推荐！
怪不得北野武这么喜欢踢踏舞，总是和我所知的北野武有些违和
故事节奏紧凑，属于不拖泥带水的传记电影，漫才的故事很容易就联想到《火花》和《昭和元禄落语心中》，“鲸”和“技艺”同音还蛮耐人寻味的，新旧时代的交替，还是有些精神内核会流传下来吧，革旧如旧。
偏古典风格的推理悬疑，当然还有犯罪。
8/10.
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