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:

  • 刁文瑶 4小时前 :

    在这个物欲横流的社会,人与人之间如此纯净的情感,已经几乎绝迹了。

  • 刀一雯 8小时前 :

    节奏还算紧凑,随着各种事件会推进剧情和角色蜕变,不过很多情节还是稍显老套。

  • 夏秀媚 8小时前 :

    孩子们的年龄有点参差不齐,也可以理解成教学环境贫乏所以混着上课,真是不容易

  • 俊槐 7小时前 :

    电影的开头年轻的韩松心里想的为了镀金去往山区支教,逐渐被孩子的纯真、善良感染,留在山区,让我想起了痛仰的一首歌“为了他们的晴朗”,歌词有几句是“当远方是故乡,道阻且漫长,天使收起了翅膀,留在了村庄”“为了他们的晴朗,你带来光芒”,这个世界终有一不平凡的人在做着不普通的事情,很值得推荐的电影。

  • 嘉依云 0小时前 :

    本以为男女主结婚故事就结束了,没想到他俩居然用一辈子来养育孩子们,太伟大了!

  • 冠初然 5小时前 :

    电影是个好电影,但是妈妈的格局未免太大了些😥 一定有人是伟大的,一定是有信仰的。

  • 丙尔槐 4小时前 :

    太感人了,我觉得郎措大哥真的很伟大,压力一定很大吧,这边要生活.照顾老师孩子们,那边又要防着盗猎者的侵袭,诶...世间最幸福的事就是有互相信任互相依靠的人

  • 士水蓉 5小时前 :

    男主的母亲也很开明,他没有将男主局限在自认为很好的条件下,而是放任他去追寻自己想要生活的地方,只可惜最后都没能看到自己儿子成家

  • 吉涵菡 4小时前 :

    确实有一种蜡炬成灰泪始干的感觉,希望每一个人都能遇到像韩老师这样负责任的老师吧,但是可能少之又少吧!

  • 宁浩言 5小时前 :

    在自己身上可能都没有那么伟大,为了藏区孩子奉献自己的一生,现实生活中应该也是有原型的吧?

  • 心茹 7小时前 :

    环境的艰苦表现出来了,但是其中也是有开心和感动的,藏区支教之旅从根本上改变了男主的人生。

  • 塞山柳 6小时前 :

    “老师,我们送你回家!”看到这里泪流满面。一群淳朴善良的孩子不舍的同时用行动表达对支教老师的爱。在藏区里生活条件艰苦的孩子们,他们对知识与新鲜事物的渴望,他们眼里的纯真,还有美丽的女人梅朵,他们的需要使老师不舍离去。最后老师母亲离世前的那两句话更使人震撼,无私的母亲,大爱的情怀,她懂她的儿子,她的这两句话让韩松更加坚定了自己的内心!结局也很真实,人生本就是起起落落相聚别离。这部剧应该打9分,还有一分是因为拍的太短了!不够看。

  • 彦锦 7小时前 :

    本以为男女主结婚故事就结束了,没想到他俩居然用一辈子来养育孩子们,太伟大了!

  • 卫士忠 3小时前 :

    前面的情节推进的还可以,但自从男主的母亲去世后,故事发展太快了,后面的情节都太没看明白

  • 奚瑾瑜 6小时前 :

    非常不错的一部影片,非常推荐,故事很吸引人。

  • 五书桃 5小时前 :

    孩子们成长的路上有一位好的老师是多么的重要!一盏明灯能让孩子们健健康康的成长!

  • 操寄灵 7小时前 :

    知识改变命运!!!

  • 斌柏 2小时前 :

    梅朵真的很治愈,正如韩松写的那般像盛放的雪莲,纯洁,美丽。这是爱情的守候!

  • 建翰林 2小时前 :

    剧情节奏很好 一下子看进去了 景色美 扣一分扣编剧

  • 包敏才 3小时前 :

    我们的生命是有限的,有限的生命里最好的增长阅历的方式就是看电影和读书,一本书也需要读很久,但是一场电影短短的几个小时就能让我体会到人生百态,感谢藏青让我体会到了藏区的人生百态

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