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.
稍微有点触动的是中间分手一段，争吵及关系的崩塌和后来以此改编成的演出唱段交叉呈现，情境基调的反差高效带出主题性。至于其他和整体……听听歌就好了。
我不算真正了解故事的背景，但是不管你是不是musical fans你都会在这个故事里找到打动你的一个点，无论是是坚持是恋爱是失望还是希望。我哭了大概五次，sunday那里百老汇蟠桃宴式的致敬，试唱会还有swimming都非常动人，难得每首曲子都倾注了真心和热情，太好听了。另外加菲真的太优秀。Thanks for all。
针的滴答声贯穿全片，营造出一种无法挥散的焦虑和紧迫感，是年龄焦虑，是创作焦虑，人终有一死，我们应当用有限的时间做什么？
is this real life？666
临近年底，好片如潮。我被《倒数时刻》深深击中！
用音乐剧的方式拍了一个音乐剧人物创作音乐剧的过程，电影呈现出非常有层次感的叙事，刻意加快节奏，切换视角都很好营造出主人公的生活状态以及心境。影片不乏魅力与动人的瞬间，但整体并没有深入到我内心，无论是音乐部分还是传记部分。加菲演的无可挑剔，但又让我产生换作他人会不会更不同的念头，虽然奔着冲奥去的品质，在我这里没有很喜欢。
滴答滴答倒数，拉森的三十岁来得太早，而他的三十六岁永远没有到来，林聚聚在音乐剧方面的才华让另一位天才的坎坷之路串接着倒数时刻的演出美妙地呈现出来，当然要算上加菲无可挑剔的表演，八年熬出的傲慢进不了百老汇，那就潜心创作下一部剧。
有说世俗的成功能给人带来不被指摘的自由，
艺术的职业道路太难走了，经常需要在追求艺术和追求面包的路上反复纠正，才华不仅重要，还需要制作出符合大众口味的商品，好不容易做出来有可能命都快没了！生命有限，才华耗尽，创造的激情不能磨灭～
因为对主人公和他的音乐剧都不了解，前面看起来还是有的不知所云，到影片后半段才渐入佳境，里面的歌曲是真好听。
"They are singing happy birthday, you just wish you could run away."
或许都是几周以后快三十的人，感同身受。三十岁的我，会有什么成就呢，又需要什么成就呢。
其实他自己选择的答案，已经显露在头一句歌词里了。“牢笼还是翅膀，你喜欢哪个？去问飞鸟吧。”
知道乔奈森必然会选择继续写下去的苏珊在生日那晚赶来送上他30岁的生日礼物，是一本新的乐谱本—她一早知道他的选择。《恐惧还是爱？》30对给了乔纳森恐惧，苏珊给了他爱。
创作者真的就是一句表扬都是动力，不需要他人认可的创作者说不存在的，抱着女朋友想着创作那一幕真的很灵，这个人，很立体。
也不只是国内有年龄焦虑要三十而立结婚生子，还是不要太逼自己在什么时间点之前扬名立万的好吧，电影原型后来的作品被认可但他三十五岁生病死掉了都没看见自己的成绩。电影是很可以引起浑浑噩噩的三十岁人的共鸣，什么时候能看到希望呀？可是加菲唱歌不太好诶。。。
电影中的音乐剧部分很精彩，但剧情叙事部分感觉略显乏力，显然想要把电影和音乐剧融在一起并不简单。时钟的滴答声提醒着我们流逝的光阴，也带来了对生活的焦虑，未来的生活难卜，是否还能活下去，是否还能坚持自己的梦想，是否还有机会成功……清醒过来吧，与其浑浑噩噩虚度光阴，不如真真切切活出鲜明的自己，把握住那些值得珍惜的东西，哪怕时光有限，也要在剩余的时间里为自己骄傲。
没想到和pose如此梦幻联动！对不起jonathan！我一定会去看一场现场rent的！曲子没有期待中的抓人，但还行吧… 我最喜欢的是susan天台的那场。michael和susan的演绎比招来的演员动人多了。所以superbia有演出过吗？我真得好想看“外星人和未来”的音乐剧…
片子看着很过瘾，音乐都很有力，词儿特别到位，好朋友迈可那段看得眼泪汪汪。加菲演的好卖力！后来一搜发现，Jonathan Larson得了个怪病英年早逝，可惜！
用音乐剧讲述音乐剧people创作音乐剧的故事，音乐剧people真是太……算了不说了，多说多错得罪人。
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