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.
经典的东西就留在过去好不好…何必再浪费这么多钱做个大型舞台剧
罗密欧与朱丽叶的内核，歌舞剧的形式，好莱坞类型片的传统依然保存，作为一个中国人，故事没啥感受，值得称赞的是导演的镜头语言，节奏、分镜和音乐配合得恰到好处。
导演能力没问题，就是这个故事本身吧……还有，好莱坞，你到底有多少歪瓜裂枣要捧，赶紧的，一次都给我拿出来吧！
有没有一种可能，音乐剧改编电影就按电影语言来拍，而不是做成大荧幕版音乐剧？（P.S.罗密欧和朱丽叶还是滋养了很多人）
没什么太新鲜的但演的不错 在一些（许多）小地儿悄悄讽刺LA人有被攻击到
1. 个人心目中，西城故事的女主应该是Anita，各种版本的卡司都很出彩。
年轻人要多跳舞，多唱歌，多谈恋爱，少打架，打完架就没有明天了
还挺奇怪的，有非常出彩的段落也有无数恶臭的部分。男主给二重唱改完词这一全片最有魅力的时刻刚结束马上搞个道德绑架，感觉编剧分裂出了正差人类/虎扑厌女直男两个人格。欧阳万成是一个有独特魅力的演员毋庸置疑，但这次顶多算塑造了个变态。
如果知道最早的音乐剧《西区故事》其实是脱胎于罗密欧与朱丽叶的情况下，大体上就能很好地理解整个故事了。老实说此片的镜头调度可谓是一流的，相比老版电影真正做到了把西区故事改编成一部电影的任务而不是依旧保留强烈的舞台剧感，古典戏剧的故事内核竟有那么一丢丢贴近美国现在多种族融合的现状，不过同时作为一部歌舞片，此片的音乐ememem……
7/10。大导能力摆在那里，镜头的调度，场景的设计，处处能看出大导的气质。但大导也有局限性，种族对立这样的话题只能点到为止，和如今美国民间的嘈杂声音成了鲜明对比。此外，除了一个新的角色设计，也没有对当下状况的重新认知与考量——他只是在简单回忆近代美国的黄金时代，那个时代属于纽约、属于爵士、属于伯恩斯坦、属于热血、属于青春。导演对艺术追求的复古很难获得观众的共鸣，如同结尾Credit有柯达logo，写着是用35mm拍摄而成的，可是现在的观众都是看着手机屏幕长大的。
为了Jimmy弟弟能多接点戏，脚趾抠着地给四星！这化学反应是一点也没有了，但是圣诞电影要啥化学反应！
说实话，这是我看过最好的圣诞爱情电影，又幽默又温馨, 还发人深省。的确“社焦”网络害死人，做真实的自己才最重要。Love Christmas 💗🎄
Maria演得也太……没心没肺，衬托得Tony的人物弧线越发完整。逼未亡人去报信实在太扭曲了。从买枪开始就注定是不得善终的一眼钟情。
……我以为自己什么歌舞片都喜欢，谢谢您，我错了
2.7/这种伪鸡汤还是骗不到人的 妮娜反着长也不可能…但还是被真爱至上的纸板桥段戳到
音乐剧电影到了Spielberg手里，尬唱也自然了，close up也正常了，编舞魅力不减，演员唱功弱点被顺利掩盖，还给了我Ariana Debose和Mike Faist 那么亮眼的戏份。老奶奶的Abuela改编还蛮有想法的。不得不服。
Having the leading actor looking like Jimmy, I really don’t know what to think and what to feel. This is so odd. Is this progress? I am so confused. #颜狗的困惑
唱段都改得非常棒，更加宏大更加张扬，我还是无法接受，Tony杀了自己哥哥然后即刻原谅了他，并一起做爱……我还以为这里会改一下。。。
ansel演技尴尬到抠出大别野了...（但是斯老头是牛逼的这点不可否认，配角表演很赞
坐在电影院里看到一半的时候我只有一个想法：我真的好不喜欢这个故事。歌也一般叭就，演员就更没感觉了，女主甚至看得我一头问号。看到最后我都想，这群人怎么没死光光呢。镜头画面，跳舞（特别是墨西哥人的舞）都拍得很好看。喜欢唯一一个正常人Anita（嫂子）。打分的时候会想两星是不是太过了，但一想到我在电影院里如坐针毡：必须两星，只能两星。朋友在旁边说旁边爷爷不知道哭什么，我后来想了想，如果我二十年前看了大野智他们演的舞台剧，也许今天我也会坐在这里哭叭。
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