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.
三星半。Jake的独角戏，全程只有他，还拉特写怼脸拍，观众只能靠他的表演和电话那头声音来判断故事的推展，基本处于和接线员一样的视角，有意思。Jake真的演什么都很稳。
低成本拍摄，甚至没有一个镜头出过办公室，全听电话折磨人，显然男主是自身过失杀人，带着情绪上班当接线员，靠着不断切通话让观众脑部Henry与Emily以及他们俩儿女之间发生的事，反转啦！原来Emily有精神病。
终于明白为什么感觉如此别扭了，因为这么卖力的表演完全是建立在无源之水无本之木上的，试图放大个人人性性光辉弥合社会不合理造成的族群撕裂，说是野心都算夸它了。
broken people save broken people
我还以为艾米利是精神分裂…没想到这个故事那么平淡 全场很考验老吉的演技 但他这寸头真他妈帅
电话线上找不到出路的可怜人，911指挥中心里找不到出路的接线员，破碎者拯救破碎者，愈是痛苦愈是纠结，本来不那么喜欢吉伦哈尔，但他表演实在挑不出毛病，抑郁，暴躁，痛苦，愧疚，焦急，软弱，能清晰地区分出他的情绪来源，层次感非常好，张力十足，全片没有动作戏，没有性感花瓶，但小成本拍成大制作的感觉，网飞出品的正片上限又被推高几分。
7/10。主角缺陷极多，所以看似反个人英雄主义叙事，实际还是个人英雄主义。剧作严谨，台词细腻，不过，故事魅力在于反转却并不高明，因为主角的一切缺点反而过早地暴露了反转的目的，观众一猜就中。如果换人来演不一定及格，老吉演技实在太突出。片尾Credit出人意料，没想到一批大腕以voice形式出现在了电话的另一端。
相比剧情，更值得思考的是，为啥老美会拍这样一部剧，几乎一个人演完了90分钟，全是电话对白和大特写，压抑，困顿，崩溃，演技是挺绝的。
生而为人，都不容易，对别人宽容一点，对自己也宽容一点。杰克一人撑起的电影。
故事剧情的发展非常抓人，高潮迭起完全无尿点。
反转，但没有完全反转。不过，确实代入进去了：好的悬疑永远留有想象空间——只听声音就可以了？那太浪费主角演技了！
落魄之人拯救落魄之人
故事蛮有趣的，一度对于男主的行为感到愤怒，心想应该是隐藏线男主经历过什么，结果情感上并不是很能串联起来…
7/10。主角缺陷极多，所以看似反个人英雄主义叙事，实际还是个人英雄主义。剧作严谨，台词细腻，不过，故事魅力在于反转却并不高明，因为主角的一切缺点反而过早地暴露了反转的目的，观众一猜就中。如果换人来演不一定及格，老吉演技实在太突出。片尾Credit出人意料，没想到一批大腕以voice形式出现在了电话的另一端。
2021.10.1 看之前都不知道是翻拍，就覺得懸念節奏設置得不太到位，男主獨角戲很有看頭，但總覺得他頂著一張帥臉沒太能刻畫出人物性格（對白也有關係吧）導致我最後都有點一頭霧水。而且Ethan Hawke為什麼不出鏡啊真討厭！
cliche，便宜但是剧本🉑️。Broken people save broken people.
总体来说完成度较高，但是我还是喜欢内敛一点的原版，这部有点太外放了，男主很多动作和表情辅助演绎情绪外露，可能先看了原版的原因吧
辛苦分，和原版一样适合归到“失败的非烂片”里去。
这个独角戏看着挺紧张的，后半段开始快进看了，实在是剧情太无聊。
小成本电影（吧？）讲得故事不错呀，看了一些评论之后觉得丹麦版应该更超越（或者致郁）一些。
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