剧情介绍

  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)

评论:

  • 兰三姗 8小时前 :

    即使不在一起了也是一家人,还是依然会爱爱爱不完

  • 咎飞珍 9小时前 :

    家庭的基础是爱,而非血缘。

  • 司徒芷蕾 8小时前 :

    最后一幕真的好有爱啊~原来代孕老妈演过猎魔人的Queen Calanthe 我说怎么这么眼熟~ 小男主和喜欢他的那位都很可哦 LOL 就是腹肌没什么铺垫啊 都没见做什么运动……腹肌成了标配吗 哈哈。 另外其实满赞同一个评论 这个故事换成男女夫妻也不会有什么违和感…同志夫夫只是让小男主和另一个男生的互动有了看点吧 时间多的可以看一下 :)

  • 妍格 5小时前 :

    剧情有很多可以发散的空间,拍成剧吧

  • 左丘星驰 6小时前 :

    看预告片时就觉得挺有趣的家庭喜剧,漂亮暴躁的柜中哥哥突如其来的初吻,基爸爸们离婚大战互相倒掉对方珍藏红酒剪碎Prada真的有笑到,笑料不断的背后其实还回归到温情,其实人到中年分手能够在孩子和财产上坦然真的是双方都要是好人才行【所以是喜剧不是写实片

  • 全安怡 8小时前 :

    来啊互相伤害啊,倒掉你的珍藏红酒。其实很温暖

  • 凡春 2小时前 :

    半夜看这个笑死,我现在耳边全是叽里呱啦的意大利语😂

  • 东门琴轩 2小时前 :

    在以婚姻关系为纽带的背景下,爱情能存续多久呢?🥲🥲🥲

  • 士如曼 6小时前 :

    Why are there fuckin' faggots everywhere

  • 平楷 5小时前 :

    这种抓马的剧情看起来确实老啧劲的,全程都是医院隔壁床看戏视角。

  • 季修为 6小时前 :

    很抓马,但是讲的故事却很有趣。二十年的同性婚姻家庭也会遭遇破裂,没有血缘的孩子依然爱得深沉。真爱会消失,但真的爱过。

  • 子车鹏池 3小时前 :

  • 仍秋柔 7小时前 :

    还挺有趣的,同婚在这些地方合法后,我确实对那些走入婚姻后的gay couples有很大的好奇,我的认知还停留在摩登家庭里面,这俩的抓马好像更严重一点…让我看的最不舒服的是所谓的出轨是两个人的错,如果真的没有爱了就分开呗,为什么要出轨呢?而且还欺骗了两年…

  • 夷远悦 3小时前 :

    光影真的很绝,演员演的也很到位,但有对比就有差距。《麦克白》改编的只看过黑泽明的《蜘蛛巢城》,相比之下黑泽明的故事更具完整性和故事性,而这个《麦克白的悲剧》戏剧化的延续,让人物内心活动表现得更突出一些,但故事性就不如《蜘蛛巢城》,我会更偏向于故事讲的好的,因为黑泽明方方面面都不差。

  • 敖鹏赋 0小时前 :

    能够依靠的从来都是千丝万缕的爱,而不是血缘。这个道理真是高级又现实又无奈。希望所有国人都能尽早明白看透。电影而言拍的中规中矩,就是你看到这个海报和故事梗概的感觉,没有失望也无惊喜。

  • 卫宏 4小时前 :

    我居然提前猜到了,孩子和两个爸爸没有血缘关系。

  • 井涵畅 9小时前 :

    两个男性组成的家庭比男女组成的家庭更正常把,因一方A 出轨家庭分裂在周年纪念日上小三闯到家里,一方B暴怒私自卖掉赖以生存的经济来源餐厅,A跑到B的衣帽间里对着B 空西装打拳、剪烂B的prade西装好有意思,原本以为最有的特色的孩子磕了药无安全绳攀岩会成功爬下来打破对自己的设限,结果抓马坠地从而推进所有人团聚在医院,引出孩子和生母讨论孩子父亲是谁的话题,中间那个段落,两位父亲原先都以为自己是孩子爸爸疯狂争抢抚养权,到知道自己都不是父亲时互相退让抚养权的变化,有趣也纪实啊,两个爸爸能争抚养权已经是好男人了,一般男人大概都不会争抚养权妨碍自己找下家或者拿到抚养权也是给父母抚养去了,包括最后在学校聚会上因为一首歌两位爸爸和好如初的做朋友还愿意继续这段父子情,这部片子拉低成可笑的low片,

  • 妫又亦 8小时前 :

    是一部也许可以促进一个社会进步的作品,也是一部带给我许多思考与情绪的作品。从我自己的角度评价,是可以给到9/10的优秀作品。

  • 唐永昌 8小时前 :

    和所有“普通人”家庭一样,自然无差别的琐碎生活故事。但我不认同出轨是两个人的事,背叛就是背叛,不要找理由

  • 彩格 8小时前 :

    感情是流动的,爱是永恒的。你真幸福有这么多人爱着你。

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