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.
主题很小但拍的不错，林嘉欣是港台鼎盛时代末期的明星了，印象最深的就是她和学友的男人四十，这部电影里的表演恰到好处
非典时期，我跟剧中女孩儿差不多的年纪。鸡毛蒜皮，父母子女，太真实了。林嘉欣距《暗色天堂》演技又进了一步
白马见于安德里亚阿诺德《鱼缸》、李霄峰《少女哪吒》……
相比于瀑布，都是细腻的台影风格，又差了一点意思。
是没有很好啦 但寂寞自以为无人理解独自面对所有垂死挣扎的青春期 就还蛮 让人无奈的。
女孩选的演员真好，满脸的刻薄寡恩；结尾没有用演讲烂俗收尾也很好。
这个家庭的四个成员每个人都哭过。其实两个孩子的哭只是人生的小插曲，而两个大人的哭才是人生的主题歌。
Too cruel for this little girl and me.
影片将家庭之苦与生活之难表现得淋漓尽致，尤其是，本以为是这个家庭中的最为坚强的爸爸，在听到小女儿终于无恙时，在楼道无人处止不住的抽泣。原来，成年人的崩溃如雪崩，猝然之间，可以毁灭所有平静的场景。
整体都有点莫名其妙，叛逆期的女儿和身患重病的母亲之间的冲突来的毫无理由，整体一般。。。
好喜欢这类家庭题材，林嘉欣演技很好，剧情选择的内容很棒，即能表现各人物当时所处角度的想法，又能体现在家庭粘聚力下各种关系的感觉…
林嘉欣好美。故事里的每个人都有自己的困境，不能单纯批评芳怡自私不理解父母，她的世界被颠覆学校里的一切不如意正好碰上了这尴尬的自我年纪。但我真的有点讨厌家里女儿和爸爸合谋讨厌妈妈的情节。妈妈一个人面对生死，就像思婷说的那样如果现在已经是她能做到的最好了呢？每个人都在希望她回复平静承诺不会早死，有没有问过她想要就这样死去吗？好在爸爸虽然爱抱怨却始终尝试理解妻子，小女儿肺炎隔离时也放弃出差留在家里。其实作为家中唯一一个赚钱养家的人，爸爸的压力也可想而知的大。芳安看起来真的懂事很多，难以想象在这样年幼的时段她竟然一直在试图弥合妈妈和姐姐之间的间隔。她竟然知道跟姐姐说，你真的知道妈妈是爱你的吧？学校的语文老师第一次训话看上去凶凶的，没想到却是她在发现芳怡说恨妈妈的blog时反而给了她演讲说真话的机会。
哪怕芳仪与母亲间的关系如此剑拔弩张，电影的叙述也静水流深。方郁婷的好不可否认，但阮凤仪的女性视角也为影片投注了更多的温柔，相信这个叫「仪」的女孩多少也带着导演的私人记忆吧……
东西方文化的冲突渗透到原本就支离破碎般的生活中衍生了各种看似无法调和却又真实发生在我们身边的不和谐，台湾的文艺和人文色调将这些冲突摁在了隐忍的泪与叹息中，这是儒家文化的共同性，每个人都在忍耐每个人都在承受每个人都在以为他人的名义考虑自我，这也是当下每个国人都有的痛点。阳台流泪的妈妈和楼梯哭泣的父亲两段戏很戳心。可即便各种虐心但生活还是要继续，不然还能怎样？这片子让我看到了经儒家文化熏陶后的人性的某种力度和弹性。
①许多家庭悲剧产生的真正根源，说到底并非哪一个家庭成员的问题，而是家庭本身就是问题，婚姻也好，家庭也罢，并不是所有人类生存与相处唯一的最佳解决方案。说到本片，我不喜欢大女儿的性格，虽说处于叛逆期，言行仍相当自我中心，一心想回美国，而完全不考虑父母，尤其是罹患癌症的妈妈的立场。但即便如此，我也不会说这样的小孩太过特例，因此得出这部电影不够有说服力这样的结论，因为，每一个不安分的家庭，都有它各自不安分的原因；②故事的编排、演员的表演、导演的掌控都很稳，观影过程我一直揪心抹泪，细想下来，其实没有一个所谓反面角色，这个家庭也距离贫穷很远，还可以感觉到夫妻年轻时也是男帅女靓，一双女儿也是俊得俊，可爱的可爱，但一路走来，现实的生活，为什么就那么煎熬呢？
三星半。时代背景与死亡的恐惧交叠，中美文化（意识形态）的拉锯。台湾电影的一大特点，就是所有议题都可以往家庭片里嵌套，属于是万能药。
我只是覺得她可以做得更好
唉，哪一个家庭在这个节点没有这些乱七八糟的事呢，又或者说每个家庭的每天是否都在经历这些问题呢
年纪大了真是看不得这种片子 因为知道短暂的温情前后全是无尽的琐碎与折磨 sigh
背景和故事内容相似，却比瀑布流畅太多了。结尾仓促了些。
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