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.
保罗·索伦蒂诺关于家乡、家人和成长期的回忆。本来所有的愉快都将延续下去，温暖的海边、如画的家乡、美丽的小姨、可爱的父母，还有马拉多纳加盟那不勒斯这样完美的事实。可是父母突发意外，成为了孤儿的男主必须匆忙与过去告别。虽然这是一个残酷的故事，但因为灵感源自导演本人的经历，所以处处透露着温柔。对家乡的热爱把那不勒斯描绘得非常美，片中的角色也十分形象、可爱。与老妇人那场让人震撼的床戏则展现了导演的真诚。导演引领观众在自己的回忆中徜徉，在观众爱上这一切之后，却又残忍地要求观众告别。多次提及的《美国往事》暗示了伤感的基调。多年后再回头，过去仍然明媚。
那不勒斯往事，不要沉溺于往事，有些费里尼的影子，很多线索段落写得很好，几段对话也挺精彩，看得出索伦蒂诺的真诚，只是有点散了一点，情节时间线或许可以设计得更长，这样结尾或许更加有情感冲击力，人物结尾会更加动人。
马拉多纳的手，那不勒斯的夜，小男孩的忧伤......
那不勒斯夏天的许多第一次，用极度打开的方式
故事是真的乏味。到这部里，感觉索伦蒂诺一些神迹感的镜头就像仅仅作为招牌动作的使用安插其中罢了。但是仍然爱他电影里的意大利女人，最喜欢男爵夫人那句：我完成了我的使命，帮你展望未来。
索伦蒂诺的怀旧经典，就如阿方索．卡隆之《罗马》、阿莫多瓦之《痛苦与荣耀》、托那托雷之《天堂电影院》。
索伦蒂诺的那不勒斯乡愁，
“我没疯，我只是很年轻。”
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3.5 主角Feedback甜茶还feedback CMBYN结尾。氛围掌握，费里尼气息重，镜头语言致敬《八部半》、《月吟》
7.0 《阿玛柯德》的开头，费里尼式的女性人物，成长故事，自传性质。剧本松弛、随意，节奏较差。马拉多纳。
父母意外身亡带来的冲击与悲伤，希望通过性启蒙让他振作的伯爵夫人，无畏的走私犯朋友。还有做为那不勒斯时代符号的马拉多纳，这一切都是命运的安排，上帝之手。
8.1/如果说罗马是成人世界中华丽的颓废，那不勒斯则是懵懂少年里盎然的生机，但夏日的时光总是短暂的。极具私人化的“那不勒斯往事”，导演用暧昧的“上帝之手”来复刻他的“阿玛珂德”，最终却像流于俗套-为了逃避而向往罗马。
典型欧洲现代片的样子，从建筑路景和人们的样貌打扮，年少气盛的少年配秤风韵犹存的徐娘，以及各种样貌的老年人，前半段集中在美好生活的叙述，有些桥段也很逗，变故发生后影片就进入了主角游离状态，整体片子属中上水准，但应该可以更好。
迷人的少年成长史，与足球、上帝之手结合得很巧妙。人生纵使支离破碎，还是有向往、有未来的。意大利真好看。
只有在意大利才可以成立的电影。可以说是宗教/体育/家庭片，但归根结底是coming of age片。很工整，也不乏值得回味的角色和细节。分两天看完，觉得马上二刷也可以。后悔没有在那不勒斯待久一些。
一定程度上，或许既是索伦蒂诺的《罗马》，他的《痛苦与荣耀》、他的《天堂电影院》，但是其实也都不是。没有功成名就的荣归故里，只有少年人历经沧桑的走出乡土，前后两半的情绪截然不同，前半部分欢快、诙谐、活色生香，将少年情愫放在马拉多纳如天神下凡般降临拿波里的时代中，那些充满私人的视角和意大利南部风情画般的年代生活都带有几分魔幻色彩的浪漫，父母之间吵吵闹闹又温馨幽默的相处，随后横遭变故的人生际遇，让眼神纯净的小伙终于萌发要走出去、要拍电影的志向，无论是马拉多纳那些神迹时刻、启蒙缪斯灿烂光辉又困于精神病院的隐喻，火山即将喷发的象征意义，再到由风情老妇开启的成人岁月，索伦蒂诺信手拈来的种种符号讲述了一个少年走向重生，走向外面的世界的启蒙历程。（为帕特丽夏小姨的性感加一星）
“别垮掉。他们不是剩下你一个人，他们是抛弃了你。”要带着满满的恨意活下去啊，永远别和这个世界和解。
美丽的景色，琐碎的风景，突兀的片段，情节突然的急转直下。直到看到导演照片，我才意识到这是完完全全的“自传型青春日记“，导演找了个跟自己很神似的男演员。他最后还是去了罗马，做了电影导演，所以，谁能告诉我小修士到底是怎么回事儿？
有时候觉得导演才华洋溢，有时候又感觉匠气十足。前半部分节奏很好，后半部分零碎而拖沓，煽情过猛，另外结尾也太像cmbyn了吧
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