Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)
神级反转，然后从zz，文化，教育多反面嘲讽，虽然最后显得有点多余，但整体无伤大雅。最后真的佩服，印度电影是真敢拍啊
反转太多其实有点毁我的观感，但是律师掷地有声地喊话还是蛮让人感动，尤其是唐山事发后不久看这个片。“一个国家的尊严等于它给女性的尊严”
这是要拍续集还是留白啊，尬在中间了……重杀一遍人犯没有必要，前面交代得挺清楚了。女老师真好看，虽然逻辑不能太深究了，埋的线挖的坑也忒多了，填没填导演自己还搞得清吗？简单点，故事说得简单点，去掉不必要的，会更好！所以那么好的题材，最后突出一个复仇吗？最后真是败笔。总体还是很值得一看的！
我就像羡慕韩国部分类型电影一样羡慕着印度电影 因为电影里可以有很多百姓想说却不敢说不能说的真话
好久没有静下心来看剧了，也看了不少印度电影，真的不错，至少人家敢说敢拍出来
观影后，我仿佛已经看到一个庞然大物正在缓慢崛起了，当某些群体习惯性的圈地自娱、一叶障目的放眼世界时，只会尽可能的把别人的不足摆在明面上借以衬托自身的优越，自身的恶劣极尽所能的掩藏起来。反观印度已经开始明白书写满文明只能让现实变得更加野蛮这道理。民主制度和反思的力量并不会如极权般的统治那样即刻发挥效力，但是可以胜在悠久绵长。激素只能兴奋一时，后患却是无穷的。不出意外，此消彼长之间最多三十到三十五年，这个可怕的邻居必将取代“某…”成为世界第二大经济体。
乍看导演是让观众不要看表象，但导演全程都隐瞒着重要人物关系 因果关系在讲述，直到最后几分钟才一下放出全部关系 这种头重脚轻 刻意隐瞒重要线索情节到最后的方式 绝对上不了4星
好久没有静下心来看剧了，也看了不少印度电影，真的不错，至少人家敢说敢拍出来
其实我比较伤心的是，小狗狗肯定会和芬奇一样死去，那杰夫怎么办啊
铲屎机器人养成记！话说这机器人真不是从隔壁《爱死机》跑过来赚外快的吗？情节也连得上：狗狗去世后杰夫开始环球旅行遇到了其他两个机器人同伴，最后遭到猫猫围攻，再次干起铲屎的老本行。
这么老套的电影，Tom Hanks是闲不住吗，这种电影他还没拍烦吗。豆瓣为什么这么多喜欢老式温情片的人，当然我被坑的最惨的一次还是三傻大闹好莱坞。
层层反转确实有些别扭，不过敢拍也是确实敢拍。
前段是《杰伊比姆》式的社会罪案题材悬疑片，但到了最后一个小时开始狂飙突进，大概一口气塞了十个热搜事件和阴谋论、五个颠覆全片级别的反转、以及超过两部电视剧的信息量。性别议题、阶层议题、教育问题、白手套、竞选阴谋论、舆论操控、复仇、政治陷害……每个主题单拿出来都能拍成佳作，就生生全部缝合到了同一部电影里。如此“敢拍”的确是值得崇敬，但这种全靠最初级的闪回和慢镜煽情拍法编织起的高密度强情节也确实是有点极端。
我就像羡慕韩国部分类型电影一样羡慕着印度电影 因为电影里可以有很多百姓想说却不敢说不能说的真话
能拍敢拍三星起，中间是有点惊喜，但是总之太长了，没必要。
韩国以及印度的电影，为何敢于这么拍出黑暗，国内连拍都不敢吧，敢拍的导演演员肯定直接被封杀，几乎不可能过审，都让国民活在童话之中，感谢韩国印度拍的这种电影，让我们看清楚人性
叙事粗暴，节奏混乱，反转生硬，太多画蛇添足的戏份，但题材上的野心勃勃，总归让人看到了印度电影蓬勃的生机。
22-130. 印度電影總能給我帶來驚喜。主題很複雜，涉及到高校教授以公謀私，執法者背叛道德底線，權利掌控者腳踩他人上位，以及復仇者的鳳凰涅槃，沒有頭重腳輕的感覺，總體而言糅雜得很到位。主線本來以為是一個警察不惜堵上自己的職業生涯為民除暴的故事，卻沒想到最後居然是官官相護，同流合污，一場自導自演的審判笑話。他破壞尸體，聯合媒體操控輿論的時候有想過後果嗎？命令JC暴力攻擊手無寸鐵的學生，在那一刻，他有猶豫過嗎？自己的孩子被傷害，受害者的母親坐在他旁邊安慰，他有感到愧疚嗎？當丟失了良心的執法者操縱起輿論來，比一般人更可怕。律師的復仇更是看得我目瞪口呆，律師的故事甚至可以單獨拍一集。
非我等动动笔杆、喊喊口号的“理论家”所能企及
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