This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity.
I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few).
Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).
俗人果然还是不适合看歌舞片 倒是希望二代小蜘蛛能拿个奖什么的
新年第一部电影。看着Jon和Susan就想到Mia和Sebastian，然后想到加菲和石头姐，更加意难平，就算不能在一起，能不能再合作一部音乐剧？
艺术家短暂的一生，遗憾的爱情，无人理会的才华，贫苦的生活，从痛苦中开出绚烂的花。加菲的表演太动人。比《吉屋出租》完成度高很多，这才是音乐剧电影应该有的样子，音乐和剧情完美融合。
泳池那场戏很有创造力。故事选取了主角年满30岁之前的那段潦倒时光去讲，视角也挺独特。
其实中后段有点撑不起来，最终要将的不是很清晰，你到底要讲的是个人还是时代，没有掰扯好来，一直摇摆不定，最后的收尾，也比较一般，好就好在形式上让人眼前一亮，加菲这次也撑得起来。
像没有很喜欢rent一样，也没有很喜欢这个电影，只觉得嘈杂...有的歌还不错，安加菲也老了...
Cages or wings which do you prefer?
太太太纽约了！太太太太好哭了！到现在纽约也是，扔个bagel能砸到仨儿一边端盘子打工一边追求梦想的年轻艺术家们。对应最后Jon的结局，tick，tick可能就是血管瘤的警告
7.5分。原本以为既然是介绍Jonathan Larson，那就应该介绍他创作《吉屋出租》，并且在公演前不就骤然离世的故事。没想到电影并没有选择这段，而是直接用了他自传性质的剧本直接改编。好的地方在于真情真性，加菲扮演这样一个略有神经质的角色还是挺搭的，坏处就是整个故事你刻意随便放在任何一个落魄追梦人的身上，并没有太多的独创性。整体而言我还是挺喜欢的，主要还是歌曲的关系吧，尽管口水，但还是很对我胃口啊~~~
大概是年度最佳音乐剧吧，扎实、流畅，在传记片中加入了对时间和生命的探讨，只不过爱情线一如既往的无聊。
这几年我唯一能欣赏的歌舞剧只有lalaland。
Sunday里大咖多到眼花，都太给面子了。
看这个片子哭到断气我要感谢很多人包括这个世界
有几首歌还是挺好听。然而还是那些错过的恋人，让人焦虑吧的时光流逝，青春不再，事业未半，除此似乎也无它。在歌声里，自由与梦想正确无疑，爱情和友谊不可辜负。但那也只是在你我的歌声里。Cages or wings, which do you prefer? ask the birds. Fear Or Love, Baby, Don't Say The Answer. Actions Speak Louder Than Words. 恍然大悟，日常生活中很少会说I will do anything for you. Anything. 虽然此刻心同此句。Come to your senses, defenses are not the way to go. 真人真事加半星。WYT
p.s. 加菲，你还有多少惊喜是朕不知道的！
最好玩的是那段去广告公司做研究小组赚外快。-I don’t understand how u can take any of this seriously. -because they pay me. -money isn’t everything. -Well it doesn’t hurt. -are u sure about that?
他们通过记住和记录他的笑容来缅怀敬爱的他，加菲的演绎更是还原出了这个人物的感染力和人格魅力。戏里戏外相互嵌套的形式、倒数计时的多重寓意与歌词纸条、游泳等等细节也让这部电影的视听系统有很多的可读性，5星给这些才华横溢勇往直前的艺术家。
rent的诞生背景在此
艺术家的半自传式音乐剧，节奏与嵌套的结构挺有趣，连对音乐不很敏感的我都不觉得很闷。
作为一部musical，music不好是原罪
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