This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity.
I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few).
Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).
What a fantastic film to watch after you just fucked up your probability midterm, and Oscar sounding like the hot Slovak math prof just made it even better :) Oscar’s super hot though, which makes me wonder how can someone who used to torture for a living and then suffered 8-year prison sentence be so well mannered? Plus, nothing else makes sense.
当他们在讨论Lucy the character时，其实也同时在讨论Lucy the person。这种隐晦的手法使角色真正的情感一直涌流在冰面之下，直到那块手帕出现——Lucy凌晨两点在放映室承认她为自己搭起城堡，created a home——我们才第一次直面她的困境与挣扎。
多给一星因为《贝尔法斯特》让索金看着都像是懂电影语言的了
整套下来剧本非常扎实，一板一眼，循序渐进，1960年的思想和观念只是一个故事罢了
what are u fucking doing
太混乱的叙事，只剩下最后摊牌和演出成了亮点。
这是妮可基德曼?
任何关于好莱坞黄金年代的东西真的都很有魅力。一开始被群戏的多角快速对话震惊，然后就发现原来是Aaron sorkin写的。
从过于跳脱的情节编排和一众人伶牙俐齿的攻讦里，争斗、偏执、痴狂、坚守，粗看是为了这个剧，实则还是延续那个爱人与家的梦，哪怕只是在这方舞台上；最终危机化解、观众欢欣，戏照原样演了下去；现实中Lucille和她的Desi最终也没能变成the Ricardos，只剩唏嘘。
这是什么?
聚焦五十年代最火的电视剧《我爱露西》，更多探讨Ball的婚姻问题，其背后又是一部“好莱坞往事”。
麦卡锡主义的阴影、从电影到电视的往事交叠以及最平常的婚姻故事与最胶着的灵魂定位，这种种话题和元素还是被Aaron Sorkin比较顺畅、清晰也不乏能量的编排呈现出来，但本片的问题就是在这样一部经典情景喜剧、在这样一个虽也脆弱终究强大的女性面前，Sorkin其实并没有找到那个能够统摄一切或者凿进阴影的主题，使得影片虽有动人之处，但终究流于平面。最好的角色是J·K·西蒙斯的男配，剧本围读段落以Sorkin的兴趣点和水平来说有点草率和敷衍了。三星半
Brilliant!
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和《塔米菲的眼睛》一样 这类传记片的通病就是涵盖的时间线和内容太多 并不能保证节奏和故事还在掌控之中 虽然两部片子的主演都非常卖力 但仍然缺少了些灵魂 整个故事叠加的太复杂又没有主线 角色塑造比较平面 感情交代也是形式大于真挚 评表演可以拿到一些电影节的奖项 但成片水平并不高
从头车轱辘到尾，两个小时除了重复没有一点进展，编剧出身的优势也荡然无存。仿佛想站在女性视角，但是怎么也站不过去。
不知到地是剧本不行，还是导演职能没做好，个人感觉索金这部片子翻车了。10分钟弃剧。
《关于一心转行导演的艾伦索金用三部电影把三十余年编剧生涯的reputation败了个精光这件事》
显得有点舟车劳顿了 想放开手好像还是被什么东西抓住了 妮可的表演很震撼 但是戏太零散 七七八八的 最后就观赏疲劳了
看睡着两次。大概是最近脑子不够用，电影里 舞台 现实 前史三个时空互切特别费脑子。台词跟机关枪一样密集，事件全靠台词在堆，不给观众留分析人物动机的空间。三个时空互切没有给什么提示，偶尔舞台用一点黑白，但还是乱。开篇是一场明星的危机公关，吊足了胃口，但这事支撑不了全篇，尤其是这么商业的开局后面改拍人物状态，看着有点难受，因为期待值一直在向下。妮可基德曼的确演的很用力，但整体呈现一种人老话多的状态。
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