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.
也许是在纽约生活过足够长的时间，对里面的每个细节感受更加深刻。Chelsea街头的疯子，Harlem理发店的壮汉，7号线座位底下的脏瓶子，地铁站的街头艺人……每个人都装着一个斑斓的灵魂。Your spark is not your purpose, it's the meaning of life. 其实每个人都在水里寻找海洋。
2020年的末尾，终于体会到了久违的温暖与柔软。皮克斯的两面，平凡世界的幻想，幻想世界的平凡，将成年人的烦恼在童真中抚慰，将孩子们的欢笑在成长中丰满。一颗对生命毫无激情的纯真种子，聪慧却脆弱，在从零开始的直觉体会下逐渐向往活着的真切，一个迎来生命转机的倒霉男人，执着却迷茫，从满怀目标出发的主观能动后步步卸下包袱的放空，灵魂在这其中流淌生成，那是对生活的敬爱、接纳和珍重。那么事实呢，这糟糕的一年似乎早已不允许这种天真的童话存在，异世界中的精灵们亦如这世界的每一个人那般有着七情六欲，“人”的乐与悲，从未在这部作品中超脱，到头来，生活空前的艰辛，看淡一切的日子那样遥不可及。总不能放弃希望和梦吧，摆脱泥潭，大家也迎来了又一次新生，皮克斯将那份坚守的理想主义与乐观主义，以善良和浪漫之名，化作尘世福音。
三半，丰富的细节讲了一个烂大街的鸡汤，还看得我前排一米八的大汉频频用纸巾擦泪。爵士乐和猫是我最喜欢的部分，灵魂培训中心那种旷野线条大色块比较难激活我的脑活动。最后男主配22“as far as I can”恰如至亲之人陪你走一段路。22是青埂峰下顽石，来世上“走一遭”。对执念和人生purpose很好的形象化
近几年一直对皮克斯往极度现实化的美学（科技）发展毫无感觉，但在这部中它带回了一些被遗忘的东西：首先是“传送门”（剪辑），一直会需要门，透过门去看到一些东西，通过穿过一扇门，影片朝着最抽象的地方去绕了一圈来试图带回我们的感官；还稍稍带回了的是“仓库”的概念，通过彻底的物化来发现一些差异，可惜这个影像被整体的概念化一股脑地拍扁成了点线面，想想当年《玩具》中无限复制的巴斯光年包装盒是多么老辣。
今天太奇怪了，看了期待中毫无新意的《神奇女侠1984》，却发现编剧找到了一个如此符合当今问题的视角。然后看了如此期待的《soul》，完全就是个空洞到令人发指的心灵鸡汤，而且编剧精巧的塑造和迎合了当今虚无主义者的自恋，和他们自己问题的美学化，问题解法的浪漫主义，当然，所有这一切不会对他们有任何的帮助。他们也不会从生活中的一个细节发现spark，这就是个神话。
离导演前作《头脑特工队》差很远，创作者有一颗想要探讨生命哲学的心，却受限于影片的子供向属性无法发挥，本应被有力输出的普世价值观，同样沦为了服务于叙事逻辑的工具，横向对比“神女84”，那才叫“真诚”的表达，至于视觉效果的呈现，几乎不见想象力，只是皮克斯正常水准；所以...这次我可能真的要跟大家唱反调了
好好看啊！超级喜欢！！2021年看的第一部影院电影是心灵奇旅实在是太幸福了！！皮克斯yyds！！这部电影改编成游戏肯定很好玩，场景和角色设定很可爱很有想象力，泰瑞和杰瑞们就很适合做npc，配乐也好听！一人血书求迪士尼出游戏！
挺失望，首先灵魂小人儿的设计幼稚太潦草，无法忍受。其次皮克斯现在越来越说教，而且强行反转完成偷懒的升华，鱼和海洋的比喻最后没讲清楚，海洋里的水是海洋，但你得告诉观众什么是海洋的水呢？片子想说艺术需要回归生活真实感受，但最终讲成了追求梦想好像没有意义。
好看，像我这样的废物，就是想平平淡淡的过普通的人生，看完电影自己给了自己一些安慰。
和人生的死磕与和人生的和解 难得的统一了 这是每个中年人的必修课。在今年在当下，尤其可贵。
人生也不是非得要追求什么才叫值得。
❶ 以“SOUL”的名字呼唤爵士。
我们向往星辰大海，又困在无边无际黑黢黢的海水中，太多人窥见了生活的真相，却忘了火花点亮的瞬间有多迷人。Joe和22未能再相遇，所有人都希望他们再相遇，但遇到一次还不够吗，足够了。一定要去电影院看这部片子啊，尤其是在经历了如此糟糕的2020之后。音乐好听，视觉也赞，想象力惊叹，疗愈力更是爆棚，关键还很好笑，简直是收到了一份意外的圣诞礼物！
设定优秀、内容丰富、情感至深，细想之下可讲的东西太多了，而且画面和音乐也很优秀，视听体验非常好……
2021.02.05
可叹的是心系苍生的袁公成了天庭罪人，本应流传的天书却被藏匿三千年。幽默诙谐充满讽刺，明察秋毫中笑谈人间百态。小时候看这部影片看到的是童趣，快乐与想象，现在看更像是一部魔幻现实主义动画影片。影片改编自平妖传，刻画了从帝王，官员，僧人，神仙到妖怪，商人，农民等一系列乱世众生相。玉帝端坐于天庭，不知人间疾苦；官员尖酸贪婪，搜刮民脂民膏；僧人六根不净，商人见风使舵，妖怪招摇撞骗，皇帝醉心玩乐。这部影片实在是，寓言化，脸谱化，心系苍生。
从不抗拒建立在说教之上的主旨，踏实平稳的叙事总能让立意如同指挥棒，引领类型人物完成既定的协奏曲，无论是私密情感的流淌，还是对生命历程的回望，都是一种义无反顾的普世价值铺展，这就是皮克斯的电影观。结局的圆满或许是缺憾，但幕布迅速拉下，留下观众怀抱着对生活的热忱与信心继续前行。
不再执着于讲煽情故事的皮克斯，居然直接拍出了一部礼赞平凡生活的essay film，这毫无疑问是皮克斯自Wall-E以来最大的一次自我突破。恶意揣测Peter Docter一定很讨厌《爆裂鼓手》才拍了这片
主题大胆，视觉大胆，讲故事的方式也大胆。灵魂拷问不稀奇，稀奇的是全面创新。
累了就抬头看看天，看看树，看看各自奔忙的行路人。
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