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.
本意是讽刺资本家，但是看前半段我只觉得员工一个比一个不靠谱，后半段的讽刺力度也很弱，真实的职场要比这部片子讽刺多了。
尽搞些花哨东西，故事都没讲清，比老版逊色太多了
陀螺你奥特啦！但你还是魔法小王子。（原来是翻拍片为啥要翻拍上个时代的黑色电影？？）
这种暗黑风格很容易让人迷幻，前半截稍微有些拖沓，但故事完成度很高，想来也是如此，人到了此处，自然就会迷失，塔罗预言一般。
斯坦顿是一个穷困潦倒的男人，误打误撞之中来到了流动马戏团，在这里，他凭借着自己的聪明才智为自己某得了一份差事——为塔罗牌占卜师赞娜和她的情人皮特工作。从这两个人身上，斯坦顿学会了如何依靠巧舌如簧和敏锐观察来施展观众们眼中的“魔法”。
前一个小时以为看到神作了，但是后面似乎找不到一个足够怪力乱神的叙事方式来支撑它诡诞的开头结尾，让中间的部分显得冗长不堪，骗中骗的剧情也过分简单，也没能展现出心灵魔术的奇妙所在，陀螺在剧情片掌控上的空白暴露严重，真正好看的部分又游离于主线之外。这过长的片长，也只是为了一种美学的展示而做了拉长。即使我再说自己是陀螺粉，分也确实给不到五星了，（但我还是好喜欢啊）。
三星半，看在卡司以及服装布景都挺有质感的份上。一个人被自己的野心吞没的故事不新鲜，可以拍得短一点。看完也没明白这译名哪来的。失去自己的孩子对父母来说并不是件容易接受的事，战神里头巧舌如簧的密米尔如此说到。我看过好多类似主题的电影，这部也算其中之一，遇到这样的事，没有人能走出来。明天我那遭遇丧子之痛的领导要回来上班了，我也不知要如何面对他。
我怎么感觉这要是在中国，这老板真是无敌的好老板，这些员工才全是刁民，呵呵
画面是真的很美。之前在电影院看到预告，就挺疑惑，这么多大咖，这是个什么奇奇怪怪不知所云的预告😂看完了只想说，搞这么大阵仗，就讲了个这😂😂如果不是前面太过于平缓冗长，其实后面还不错👌
整部电影的节奏都太慢了，一直在铺垫，铺垫，实在很难坚持看完，要不是陀螺估计直接弃了，当下的世界已经离电影艺术越来越远，在这样的环境下做复古没问题，但是这么陈旧和拖沓，只会离观众更远了
质感一流。“怪人”的伏笔所有人都能猜到，但宿命式结局依然有震撼力。
然而反观其内容本身，又一定程度上为其概念化、系统化的主题结构所束缚，其体量本身不足以承载如此繁杂的人物象征，亦难以在兼顾其系统的同时维持戏剧现实的节奏，故而在一些段落（由以高潮戏为甚）的处理上略显琐碎，繁杂，反而缺失了力量。
I thought this was going to be Guillermo del toro's The Prestige but no
I like how fate has bounded the characters together. The final act is gripping to watch. The shots in the film look beautiful, but Mr. del Toro has failed to impress me with his yet again thinnly written characters.
没看过彩色版，黑白版的观感还可以，很有classic film noir的感觉。剧本写得没48版的好，拖拖拉拉，详略不当，秘笈和塔罗两个元素运用得都一般。最吸引人的还是Stan这个黑色电影中不多见的蛇蝎美男，既是猎手又是猎物，一步步走进自己设的局中去。
结尾和前面照应，看完还有些后劲
卡司诈骗哈哈哈哈哈！感觉时长减一个小时就差不多了
作为陀螺粉，对片子多少是失望的，但鲁妮还是太可爱了。
比我预期要好，但是前半段发家史实在太、太长了至少可以缩短三分之一。首尾呼应有宿命轮回之感，高潮部分有些强行让我一度觉得是男主业务能力不行导致的。怀念潘神时期的陀螺btw再次感叹凯布太适合这种很攻的角色
没看完旧版…太长了吧，转折太慢了吧，装服真的很不错，也有很多伏笔和暗示，演技感觉也没完全发挥…
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