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.
A movie to watch when you’re experiencing your migraine.
“Josh，30，Candle Maker” 这很酷
我真是，總覺得Jimmy臉沒表情時下一句出來的話是Chinglish accent的Jian Yang 😂😂exchange his character for a white nerd you'll have yourself a cliche Hallmark Christmas movie 🙄🙄
Die hard is a Christmas movie period
有正常思维的人给这部电影打五星一定有它自己的原因
这种电影本来就是看个热闹，就像过节合家欢的爆米花电影，整体温馨就完了。非要谈到现实生活，现实生活的Asian men（仅代表国内）内在有一半欧阳这样的就谢天谢地了好吧😁btw：从始至终都觉得真爱不分皮囊，如果你只爱皮囊，fine…我无f**k说。
旧瓶装的亚裔新酒，再加上我对吉米欧阳的滤镜，是不错的圣诞电影！
男主还挺有魅力的..但是两个人真的一点磁场没有啊
好老套的一个故事，欧阳万成good job
妮娜杜波夫越长越残了，他的颜值已经撑不起这种剧情垃圾的电影，
圣诞电影不必太认真，cliche就cliche吧但至少不难看，我真的看了太多难看的圣诞电影了。另外看到评论说最后发现最难的还是爱自己，确实哈。希望大家都学会爱自己
昨天回家太困了，就想看部轻松的爱情片让自己甜一下，然后又看到是Jimmy Yang演的就果断点开了。里面好几个瞬间都被Josh哥哥的温柔给撩到了，这种Don‘t worry. I got you的温柔，就特别安抚我无处安放的焦虑，soooo grounding。虽然电影这个be the real you的主旨毫无惊喜，但是当这个不完美的忐忑的Josh被看到被认可的时候，我还是禁不住流了几滴眼泪。大概也是渴望这个不完美的自己不用再躲藏了吧。
一开始就是当下饭轻喜剧看的结果最后纸板子出现直接泪奔了（。
很俗套的故事，但因为男主是Jimmy, 可以看！
一开始就是当下饭轻喜剧看的结果最后纸板子出现直接泪奔了（。
跟着 Youtube 的 reaction 视频看完了。
圣诞电影啥时候能get over love actually 🙏🏻
最后love actually那段还不错 Christmas vibe加持 不算特别难看 始终还是很难相信女主会喜欢男主
冲着Jimmy O Yang看的，加上这几天一直排名第一，竟意外的发现还过得去。
Love Actually + Die Hard = Love Hard 😂 首部以亚裔普通长相的男生作为主角塑造的欧美电影，打破浪漫爱情故事的角色设定，最后来了个反向Love Actually表白你敢信😂
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