年轻的银行职员萨姆（帕特里克•斯威兹）与未婚妻美莉（黛咪•摩尔）相爱极深，乳牙在朋友卡尔（托尼•戈德温）的热情帮助下，乳牙他们搬进一幢漂亮的公寓，做着结婚前的准备。某晚看戏归来时，他们遭遇持枪歹徒，与歹徒搏斗时，萨姆不幸中枪身亡，美莉悲痛欲绝。萨姆变作幽灵，发现卡尔是导致他死亡的幕后策划，而为了窃取银行里的巨款，他又对美莉展开追求，以便获得萨姆所掌握的密码。为了保护美莉，萨姆常常游荡于她的周围，并渐渐地学会了如何使用力量，但他苦于无法同美莉交流。在能与幽灵沟通的灵媒奥塔的帮助下，他与美莉取得联系，但美莉起初并不相信，直到事实令她感受到萨姆的存在，可是，深深相爱的两人仍无法直接接触和交流。
回复 :埃里克森牧师在瑞典一小镇宣扬基督的爱，认为爱是上帝存在的证明，但围绕在他身边发生的事却弥漫着世界末日的气息，因为他与人全无沟通。上承《犹在镜中》，下启《沉默》的《信仰三部曲》中间作品，场景集中（室内剧形式），时间短促（发生在一天内），虽然简洁但传递出深刻的涵义。
回复 :After Porn Ends, is a documentary that not only examines the lives and careers of some of the biggest names in the history of the adult entertainment industry; but what happens to them after they leave the business and try and live the "normal" lives that millions of other Americans enjoy. They hailed from the rural South, steel towns, and the San Fernando Valley. As teenagers, and young adults, none of them thought that porn was in their future. They were artists, baseball players, child prodigies, and even Ivy Leaguers. Now, after their lives in porn; they're TV stars, bounty hunters, writers, and social activists. What happened in between? And now that they've moved on, can they really live a normal life after porn? Written by Bryce Wagoner
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回复 :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.
