「当巨大的外在世界崩坏时，樱木人们只能在自己的小世界中寻求生存之道。直子与贤治将自我封闭在两人专属的小世界里，樱木伴随着男女之间自然而然的肉体关系，仿佛被抛入了无法说谎的宇宙之中，当中有着快感，也袒露出人们原本拥有的特质。似乎唯有潜入这个小小宇宙之中，人们才能发挥真正的坚强」─原著作家白石一文十天后即将迎接婚礼的直子，与重回故乡秋田的往日恋人贤治，久别重逢。直子从为了迎接新生活而整理出来的物品当中，翻出了一本相簿，相簿里是她与贤治一丝不挂地交缠着的黑白照片；往昔顺从着欲望本能共度的青春时光就此苏醒。「只要今晚就好，让我们回到过去好吗？」在直子未婚夫归来的五天内，在刻画于肉体的愉悦记忆及纠葛的尽头，两人将看到什么风景？结合了震灾背景，包覆在漠然日常之下的浓密性爱，仿佛即将喷发的火山，迸裂出扭曲却纯洁、毅然而绝美的生命岩浆。
王祖蓝
回复 :寒山寺传来的阵阵钟声，把姑苏古城从晨霭中唤醒。女导游陈蔼然又开始了紧张繁忙的一天。华裔老人宋尚清迢迢万里来到姑苏，不料却拒绝了旅行社为他安排一切活动，将自己孤零零地反锁在饭店的卧室里，足不出户。面对如此古怪的游客，陈蔼然凭借自己多年积累的接待经验，几番与老人接触，弄清楚事情的原因。原来，宋尚清祖籍山东，幼年时因家境贫困去海外谋生。几十年中，他历经人世间的冷漠和欺凌，孤身一人顽强拼搏，终于薄积资产。这次他回祖国的目的，是想寻觅往昔的宁静和乡音，以缓解埋藏在心灵深处的伤痛。陈蔼然理解宋尚清的心情。她以自己的情感和真诚，使老人感受到祖国的温暖，恢复了生活的乐趣。宋尚清巧遇族亲宋盼，没料到竟是自己老部下宋国雄的儿子，老人悲喜交加。陈蔼然得如此事，积极为宋尚清安排，使老人和国内亲属团聚。最后，宋尚清将宋氏先祖宋维的传家之宝犀牛角杯献给了古城，高兴地踏上归途。老人走后，陈蔼然又开始接待日本旅游团。旅游团随员今野向她透露，团员鬼冢在战争期间失去了仅有的两个儿子，孤身一人，对生活已失去信心，几次自杀未遂。团员田畑武雄则在侵华战争中充当炮灰，参与抢劫了一名中国妇女的两枚戒指，这次怀着赎罪的心情重访故地。陈蔼然听完今野的介绍，对他俩怀着复杂的心情，因为她自己的祖父是在南京大屠杀中丧生的。但她从大局出发，以礼相待这两位日本游客，使他们安心而归。华裔青年麦阿大和阿方被父母送回内地戒毒。他俩不断被毒瘾所折磨，以致失去戒毒的信心。陈蔼然对他俩晓之以礼，动之以情，终于使兄弟俩坚定了戒毒的信心，开始新的生活。陈蔼然虽然对工作、对他人满腔热情，可是对自己的婚姻问题却没有激情。她自称是一个"独身主义者"，但内心深处却默默地爱着为她辅导唐诗的李老师。她的外国女友露易斯自称"既不当妻子，也不想做母亲"，但暗中对李老师一往情深。这使三人都陷入了复杂的感情漩涡。陈蔼然将如何选择和安排她的个人生活呢？
张韶涵
回复 :根据路易莎·古尔德（Louisa Gould）的真实故事改编。二战期间，位于英吉利海峡的泽西群岛（Jersey）是纳粹德国唯一占领的英国领土，希特勒命令不在岛上出生的英国家庭均被流放德国，而欧洲大陆的战俘则被带到该岛强制劳动。路易莎作为岛上居民，战争中拯救了出逃的俄国战俘。尽管在得知战争中英国不会冒险优先夺回该岛后，岛上的居民在饥饿和恐惧中变得日益焦躁，但路易莎依然不改初心，保护自己拯救的俄国男孩，并将他视若己出。
安康
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.
