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.
一颗心从头悬到尾。太沉重了。看到了熟悉的西雅图。
女主的对于见到妹妹的偏执型动机没有很好的交代，导致其替妹顶罪所饱含的爱妹心切显得别拗。
不可饶恕主要是说社会对于有前科的人的态度吧，活在当下，为未来更好而活才是有意义的。
7.5，每个演员都很棒，情绪持续压抑，不断累积，到了宣泄的临界点，却戛然而止，啊，这种时候就知道不文艺的俗套模式的好了，我们希望这些苦人儿解脱，希望他们从此过上幸福的生活，那些真实生活不给我们的，我们希望多多少少能在电影里圆梦
桑德拉除了些许皱纹，还是和以前一样…演技精湛！
Sandra 无懈可击的表现，把人与人的情感发挥到极致，感人至深却不催人泪下，不过度煽情，理性的结局让你沉默不语。09年剧集改编的：https://movie.douban.com/subject/3286084/。
ps:姐妹情，其实更像母女。
替妹妹入狱的情节有点狗血了，桑婆的表演很好。
美国人在把电影拍生动这件事上越走越远，美国人在写剧本这件事上做到了自寻死路。但是再怎么穷途末路，也会有人去欣赏，欣赏那坨被抬上神殿的骨灰。
美国人在把电影拍生动这件事上越走越远，美国人在写剧本这件事上做到了自寻死路。但是再怎么穷途末路，也会有人去欣赏，欣赏那坨被抬上神殿的骨灰。
不愧是奥斯卡和金球双料影后，最后眼里似泪非泪的那种特别复杂的大特写把我看流泪了，就是布洛克一个大女主撑起了并不讨巧的改编剧本，明显就是冲着颁奖季的最佳女主挑的片子，全程压抑和内敛的演绎肯定能让她再提一个奥斯卡最佳女主吧。德国女导演的第二部长篇显然不如第一部惊艳了。
感觉有希望冲击奥斯卡，冲着布洛克的演技多给一星。
#小两口的午后影院 #豆瓣电影
成功的翻拍，剧情推进略慢，但还都在点上，四星推荐。
女主冲着表演奖去的电影，不知道能否有所斩获
都说桑德拉在本片中演得很隐忍很丧很刚，我倒觉得最后跟妹妹的重逢多多少少要流下一两滴眼泪吧？再怎么刚的女子在情感迸发处也是会流眼泪的。
导演相当克制，一部不错的表演佳作，借着看上去很实，很真的社会事件。如果给韩国导演拍，一定反转一次又一次的复仇电影。导演并没有让剧情朝着观众的设想让任何一个人去挂号。着力表现女一号内心的挣扎和生活的不易。
五岁妹妹失手杀死警察，姐姐代其做了20年牢。出狱后，又是工友的追求，又是警察两个儿子伺机报复，自己还要寻找失散的妹妹。。。布洛克的演技大涨啊，把一个失意落魄的中年女性塑造的入木三分。
两星给剧情，一星给桑德拉布洛克。剧情片的基本水准就应该是这样。总有机灵鬼说剧情狗血，我承认，剧情的确有那么一点coincidence，但是牛逼就牛逼在这个coincidence，在这么coincidence的情况下，这么让你难以信服的情况下，桑德拉布洛克演的让你信了，不仅让你信了，还让你感动了，让你哭的大鼻涕冒泡了。这时候还返回来一口what a coincidence，那就是…。
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