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.
- 与我的政府对我的蔑视相比, 我的蔑视不值一提。
倒数第二段前司法长出庭作证让人燃起希望，最后一段内部预演激烈又还原事实真相，庭上逐一报5000多名越战逝去的年轻生命，震撼。电影不错，但对外文名字名盲，每次看这样的庭审都吃力，来回看了几遍才把后一小时看完。
行吧，之前想说的不让发，那我就删了，不让管理员这个时间点还加班。
当权力要作恶的时候，包括法律程序都要变成其帮凶。人们并非不知道权力的丑陋，只是因为软弱他们选择了岁月静好。体制并非无法被撼动，只是需要躺下成为滚木的受难者。
开场叙事非常高效，虚实混合剪辑暴动也非常有震慑力。可惜索金的剧本影像化并不成功，自认为信息量巨大却让人抓不住重点，廉价的情绪渲染让人想起我不是药神，除了abbie以外的所有人都缺乏人物弧光，看完也无法引发任何共鸣。结尾仓促马虎偷换概念，最为败笔。
最后的庭审群像仿佛油画
这是一个历史的书笺，插在60年代的「The whole world is watching」，又体认美国当前的政治局势进行表达。虽然长达两个小时但富于技巧性的拍摄手法和节奏感甚佳的剧本却不会让人疲倦，注意力始终能集中在这个很密的法廷故事之中，而演员各自精彩的表演将电影焊接得更有凝聚感。索金是想把抗议与审判，以及每个人的背景都挤进去，所以有时会让人觉得很仓促。
结尾的总结陈词一下子让我想起《辩护人》一下子戳中了泪框，而电影里展示的集会时与警察们的对持又难以不想到19年的香港。虽是七君子，但电影中心主要是彼此看不上的两位以及一位黑人身上，通过他们窜起庭审的同时窜起了游行，庭审的结尾同样也是游行的高潮，这种叙事很棒。自由从来都是争取来的！
单纯从文本来看，我认为Aaron Sorkin交出了新东西——在群星璀璨中为每个角色都创造了独一无二又互相依附的故事线。这一部分得益于台词的密度，另一部分来自对剧情节奏的高难度把控。单看这两点仿佛平平，但结合在一起，却能打造出一浪高一浪的观影体验。电影的魅力在于它能把一种信仰揉在故事里，在千万人的心中播下种子。七君子既是对历史的深度反思，也是对当前时点动荡加剧的世界的一种警醒。这部片子本身很精致，也很理想主义，这两点都没有错，Sorkin一贯的风格，不好意思，我就是喜欢。如果Sorkin哪天能牺牲一点台词而给影像更大的空间，会是巨大的飞跃吧。
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I have never been on trial for my thoughts before.
不得不说，艾伦索金的剧本功力太了得了，美国人拍这种题材也是出神入化。 整个电影张力十足，最后的结案陈词差点看哭。为什么一直用理想对抗不公，为什么一直没有放弃，因为全世界再看！
这片居然不被禁，这是整不明白到底发生了什么吧。
看完情绪激昂的和他讲起60年代美国的民权运动黑人运动反越战性解放讲得唾沫横飞 讲国家权力和freedom of speech的矛盾讲政府机器和媒体的媾合 他耐心的听了半天后说 怎么不见你对自己国家的历史这么有热情有兴趣 我哑口无言。不是我没兴趣也不是我不够热情啊亲爱的
想给Abbie这种hot hippies抓虱子
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8.4分左右。
如听仙乐耳暂明。这种各个维度都拉满的电影看起来好爽。
驳回一场不公正的审判，为的是尊重逝去的生命。受到国民警卫队暴力对待的人们和在越南战争无辜牺牲的人们，两相对比，回答了人们相信自己处在怎样的国家这一关键问题。国家的合法性首先在保证人民的安危。
剪辑太好了，印象很深刻。主要人物的塑造也很好，让我觉得他们每个人都有不一样的有趣的地方，太喜欢艾比了，真的很有魅力的人啊。如果要示威游行，还是应该带个头盔，被打脑袋真的很疼诶！
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