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.
91岁的东木老爷子绝对是世界上最后一个真正的牛仔。。。但最孤峭的身躯也敌不过时间。90岁又骑马又拳击又泡妞，反而拳拳挥空，让故事看起来好假。。而且这片子节奏叙事乃至细节也均不在老爷子正常水准之列
东木老爷子还真是不闲着，拍完骡子又搞这么一出没什么剧情的片子，一老一小一鸡走一路，还找了个墨西哥娘们在无名小镇安了家
西木老了，驯马那段明显是替身了，91岁的身子骨哪经得起马那么颠簸。剧情波澜不惊，细细品味回味无穷，生活哪有十全十美，找到自己最爱才是完美。所以最后他留在了墨西哥……谁在哭泣？那个被鸡打败了2次的人？
老爷子的电影一直都是质量的保证，就像本人一样永远逗人喜爱啊，不过这次的电影失手了。故事陈旧且水平不行，毫无新意，只够两星水准。
演技只有老爷子能看…感觉就是部面向拉美或德州这边的中老年的家庭剧。但看到边上七八十的老夫妻携手观看、听着西班牙语哈哈大笑的场景时，突然觉得也是需要有这种影片的存在的。一时之间竟有些感动…
如果不是东木老爷子自导自演的电影，你会觉得这是一部平庸之作，都是情怀吧，电影本身不值得
他们不会把细节事无巨细地讲出来，也不会过于渲染危急事件的紧张气氛
i don't know how to cure "old".
Don't teach me manners when you're in bed with my mom,where she sleep.
克林特·伊斯特伍德真的老了，这么大年纪还这么辛苦拍片子，心疼，但片子真的很一般，有点像尼古拉斯凯奇近些年接的烂片，烂剧情加风骚女人。
平静舒缓的叙事节奏，流淌出淡淡人生的心灵之旅，对老东木不能再苛求什么，唯愿他身体无恙，能够拍出自己想拍的任何作品。
已经耄耋之年的东木的新作，不好说是老骥伏枥、宝刀未老什么的，而是我鲜少见的：温柔的东木。有着他曾经影片中最熟悉的元素，却放弃了不犀利不深入的悲伤故事，讲了一个平铺直叙，甚至没有什么高潮点，一老人，一少年，和一只鸡跨越美墨边境的故事，像是他的人生自传一样，像是对那个西部牛仔年代，还拿着枪的东木的致敬和怀念，转眼间已是拖着一身老骨头，给年轻一代讲他的所理解的世俗的老头了。他这次的转变，像是我最喜欢的小说家，写起了散文的感觉。
慢慢讲故事的东木老爷子，能看出确实是老了，身子有些驼了，有时候还是能看到坚毅的眼神但是难掩暮年神伤。一老头，一小孩儿，一只鸡，一段公路之旅，故事形式很老套，情结也没有多少跌宕起伏扣人心弦，简单看看不错。
牛仔大爷太老了，他刚一出场我都不相信自己的眼睛，全片充满了烈士暮年的感觉，也象征着牛仔精神的没落。
真的是人老了都会变得敏感细腻吧，老爷子的电影最近几年风格越来越“软”了，暮年的人也许都是这样豁达掺杂着些许无奈。这个世界离他们越来越远，也终将离我们越来越远。那一双透出无尽沧桑的细眼。也早已没了坚定和锐利，随它去吧……
怎么变成糖水片了，故事编得也太敷衍。难道老了之后就会变成这样吗，返璞归真一片祥和，电影内外的情节发展构成互文了。
感觉这个片子问题还挺多的，首先是除了东木和后来小镇的老板娘，剩余的演员表演痕迹实在太重；然后里面人物情绪的转折经常不make sensé （我说那个小男孩）；还有就是对于墨西哥人的stereotype，感觉拿着枪的黑帮各个像傻逼。故事不复杂，但完成得不是很好。后半部份的音乐还算加分。
片子的气质，是晚年的老人的自我感动，脑中剩下对曾经的遗憾和意气风发的回望。
画内:年迈的Miko被职业所抛弃。
多一星给老爷子面子 其实可以更好 一直以为最后俩人会中枪然后骑马去边境 做成让子弹飞的开放式结局效果 但也很好
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