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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 lo ng-held shot taken from the f ront of the car as it rides into the road, as if we we re entering a d ifferent dimen sion. I rene (Bergman) starts t he movie: we ju st see a dark cit y lands cape but her voice-over narration tel ls us of her angst and i nforms us t hat the stor y is a fla shback, her s. Bergman& amp;#39;s bee n cheating on her husband . At fir st guilt is just p sychologi cal torture bu t soon exp ands int o economic blac kmail and then grows in to somethin g else. From be ginning to e nd the movie f ocuses on what Bergman feels, eve ry other character i s there t o make he r feel somethin g. Only wh en the director g ives away the plot befor e the main characte r can find o ut does he want us to feel s omething Be rgman stil l can& #39;t. When she finds ou t, we h ave already exp erienced the wa rped me chanics o f the situ ation and we ma y focus once a gain on t he emoti onal impac t it has on Ber gman&#3 9;s Ire ne. In La Paur a treasons are not ima gined but real , nightmare s are deli berate and the couple&a mp;#39; s venom suppurates in bit ter ways. N eedless to say, Ing rid has a nother of h er rough r ides in the mo vies but Ross ellini doesn&#39 ;t dare put h er away as he did in Euro pa 51, nor does he abandon her to the inscrutabl e impassivit y of natur e (Stromboli) . His gif t is le ss transc endent and frag ile than the conclusion of Viaggio in Italia. He j ust gives his wife as muc h of a fai ry tale ending as a real woman can have, a hum an landscape wh ere she ca n finally feel at home. Ba ck to th e country, a h alf lit in terior s cene where shad ows sugges t the comfort o f sleep. After all, it&#3 9;s the &q uot;fairy god mother&quo t; who speaks the l ast words in th e movie.详情
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