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)
电影告诉大家友情比爱情重要，戳爷可太帅了哈哈
剧情一般，为了戳爷看的，影片里马卡龙色调有点好看。
打工 涂鸦 同性恋 无所事事和糟糕的卫生习惯 很美式青春
#6/2022#不得不说的确有我看cmbyn初见甜茶的惊艳感 尤其含泪那刻真的和他一起心碎了 故事性上在我这里类你好西蒙 远不及85年盛夏 更妄提cmbyn
色彩很美，故事一般。全程桃花眼for戳爷的逆天颜值。
3.5/配乐可可剧情编排有点散 很多蛮好的地方点到就收 要总结的话还是夏天青春成长故事
小清新gay 在hiv有暴露风险的3个月的窗口期，和同在诊所的印度裔男孩相遇，小清新迦勒Caleb最终的hiv检测结果已经不再是重点，无论怎样他都能够拥有一个美好的人生，用这个开放式的悬念提醒大家:在医学的帮助下，HiV不应该是一个人的死刑判决，依然可以过上积极美好的人生。/和黑发亚裔短发女开party自制锡纸过瘾，双人自行车……这种糖水片不是我的菜，小清新男有点甜茶风，这种风气不可学。/小清新男的床，早上醒来模模糊糊找手机，摸到的满手的零食。虽然这个更轻快但我更喜欢《伟大的自由》这种类型/cue 泰勒斯威夫特，笑了~霉霉很难的，要不是黑客暴露卡戴珊和她那那sb一家的毒蛇心机，霉霉到现在都爬不起来/只有养育过自己的家人才算是家人，老公刚死就忙着找新男友都忘了去接自己儿子放学的人不算母亲。
轻巧灵动的青春小品，讨喜的是议题很大但触角很小。宗教取向与少年成长没有形成庞大的负担就已经讲完了，但同样会显得浅尝辄止。亚裔女闺蜜形象酷酷的，虽然设置成lesbian实在是有点刻意。
感覺想説的有點多：親人離世、家庭衝突、健康問題…尤其是和媽媽的溝通火速和解。以及長輩們的臺詞有點陳腔濫調。這樣看這個夏天就像是兩個等待結果的人在抱團取暖，然後曲終人散？倒還算不落窠臼。蜜月期的交際有種日式的感覺，還是説所有的小甜餅都是這樣的？插入歌曲是否有點密集，我覺得除了Space Oddity之外都不是很必要。感覺他還挺適合，或者説一看就有點像這樣刻薄的角色。年輕人們的穿衣風格很可愛。一些偏暗的暖色調或者霓虹色有點戲劇化。
就是对这种美式清新百看不厌，夏日，海边，烟火…
3.5。Troye的个人表演和颜值大秀、而且他演技还真可以。更喜欢后半段，把佛罗里达的夏日沙滩以及海岸线边骑双人单车拍得太美，再配上戳爷的白色、橙色、黑色短袖和背包，就像画报上的夏日清爽少年！恍惚以为甜茶来串戏了。
居然还不错诶
有料到但还是很开心Caleb那通电话是打给Dara的...
好棒呀好棒呀私心为戳爷再加1🌟。六年老粉不请自来 戳爷真是人间蓝色美如画💙 1⃣少看啊会做梦的🤤很喜欢最后的结局 无论最终结果如何科恩都已经完成了自身的成长与和解 成长的过程总是痛苦得好似全世界都在同自己作对 只有意识到了自己所拥有的家人和朋友的爱是多么值得珍惜 这才是在这三个月的等待中收获到的最弥足珍贵的财富。以及你们通讯录不要在夏天tla了啊 以我阅片无数的经验来看真的基本上都会BE的🥺
戳爺和這個角色的適配度還蠻高的，比我想象中的要更出色，其實得艾最難克服的是自己這關，希望早日艾滋能夠得到根治吧
戳爷一分，电影色彩养眼，一分
戳爷的青春疼痛文学🈶！！！关于：夏天+海滩+亲吻+离别 的标配～ 电影的插曲 真的做到了 每一首 都太太太太好听了！能占两星的程度！！！
别的不说，贵戳这张帅脸不比橘皮性病男的嫩牛五方脸好看多了，好莱坞能不能别逮着那个男的猛薅了也来看看真帅哥（ps感觉导演是同时代人配乐全是我小时候爱听的，但就太。。想俘获什么受众的感觉太明显，完全可以称之为女大电影
life has to move on everyone has to move on
讲述了在得知病情的紧张，焦虑，害怕，到想要寻找他人认同或者是得到他人同情以及有着同病相怜的感觉，到一切东西的破碎。 当我们想要寻找任何我们觉得庇护我们的东西的时候，我们都会被其所伤，因为有了期待，所以才会失望。 因此电影就表现了这些心理。画面质感不错，属于温柔治愈的吧！本身HPV就是很严重的病，但是可能导演想说摆正心态最重要了吧！ 而且影片中有几处鞋子的特写，最后凯特回归生活，内心不再躁动时，他选择穿纯白是的鞋子，表示了此刻内心的平静和温和吧！
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