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.
老修女遇欢喜佛。结尾，艾玛汤普森卸去了通过一个半小时积累、已足令观众信服的所谓老女人的魅力，露出了年龄的真相——一具衰老松弛的肉体，然后露出了玩味的笑容。BRAVO！
这真是超小成本电影了，全靠两位主演的演技，当然都很棒～
从头到尾只让人看到一件事，女性的性压抑。别的东西都是泛泛而谈，像男主的肌肉一样空有其型，一个训练有素的ai完成女主设定的程序。但是性压抑性羞耻这件事太值得说了所以多加一星，我现在都不知道怎么合理看待。性是不好的这件事，如果是父权制带来的，为什么没有任何男性受到过这种洗脑影响?又为什么是女性更容易emotionally attached to the sex partener?有待探索。
精巧的四幕剧形式，以肉体买卖作为契机呈现人与人关系的微妙变化，最终达成与他人与自己的和解。当然这种剧情应该只存在在电影里，面对这么可爱的小哥只应该大搞特搞，汤普森最后对镜全裸还是蛮敢，对电影外的观众来说她又何尝不是里奥·格兰德，缓解大家对年华老去的焦虑并正视自己的欲望。
再次，力比多是生命之源啊，性满足后，人从想而不能的愁眉苦脸变得释放舒展。从小被主流社会价值观（宗教课，天主教教义，被社会和宗教内化的产物家庭观念）所压抑限制的是人性本源的动力，伊甸园本来就playground of delight。
正视一切，也悦纳经历，开始舞蹈
每个人干好自己的工作就好了，有的人爹味很浓，有的人妈味很浓，电影中能和解的始终只是电影，现实中可能就互爆真名报复了。
两位主演的表演也很精彩。Emma的眼神，肢体动作等等把角色的情绪展现得细腻至极，而leo从一开始的神秘到后面的情绪暴发过渡也很自然。
万万没想到，我可以津津有味的听两个人在那儿对话一个半小时而全程无倍速
电影，如此梦幻…………
Oh, yes, he's like a woman-friendly gay~
看似简单的对话戏，实则是心理戏，家庭戏，社会戏，呈现的内核很丰富，很大的思考空间能让人完全忽视场景的限制。表演很棒。
评论区挺有意思的，甚至能看出男女来，虽然不能一概而论，但的确很大一部分男性关注的可能是性工作者，欲望本身，于是这部电影的大量对话和女主经常东拉西扯甚至转到现实很不符合预期。女性观众能共情的就多很多，这恰恰很契合这部电影的主题，起码我作为一个女人，个人觉得这部电影的重点不是性工作者的性别优势，不是性欲本身，而是女性的生理心理满足。她絮絮叨叨，在性这件事上唯唯诺诺，战战兢兢。leo通过对话引导和床上运动让一个大半辈子不知性欲为何物的女性得到快乐并渐渐了解自己。南希最后说，她自信了，谢谢leo，这事真的说复杂跟天书一样，说简单就是做踏实了呗，甚至最后她的满足不在于生理运动，只在于看
室内剧，好喜欢Emma这个演员，最后一幕很震撼。女性在花钱买性服务的时候都要时刻自我反思吗，就不能享受就完事了……
Oh, yes, he's like a woman-friendly gay~
慢火煮酒，余韵悠长。
着实干净坦然，也许只有女性导演才会拍的如此温柔细腻和理想化吧，艾玛好有灵魂，细微的体态动作都是语言
除了导演带给大家的极致浪漫/扫兴沉浸式体验，片子本身的精巧也非常难得。第四幕的设计不得不说是近期少见的华彩，台词的精妙加上两人出色的演绎，把这段奇妙的关系推向了新的境地。好片子就是各方面都出色的完成。对我来说女主的一些心态是比较容易代入的，这也让人更加沮丧，世上是否真的有人哪怕为了钱也要让你感受到你想得到的「松弛」，这简直就是活着的菩萨吧
充分交流前提下的性治疗，一种觉醒及寻求自我的方式，认真又不乏幽默，性感又不失体面。
pleasure is not a shame.看名字还以为是一个温情故事，但看完想到的是《女性瘾者》，不在于剧情，而在于启蒙、探索。
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