一场火车对撞的惨剧夺去131名乘客的性命，大卫•杜恩（Bruce Willis 布鲁斯•威利斯 饰）奇迹般地成为这场灾难过后的唯一幸存者，且浑身上下毫发无伤。在他参加遇难者追悼会之后，他在车窗上发现一张神秘便条，写道：“你这一生生过几次病？” 不久，一个名叫伊利亚•普莱斯（Samuel L. Jackson 塞缪尔•杰克逊 饰）的黑人出现在大卫面前。和大卫不同的是，伊利亚天生手脚残废，脆弱不堪。喜爱漫画的伊利亚认定大卫就是书中那种具有超自然能力的超人。懵懂的大卫开始在伊利亚的引导下认识自身的能力……1940年代早期，第二次世界大战即将结束。激烈的持久战使苏联军队和德国军队都日渐疲惫。德军一辆极具攻击性和破坏性的巨型坦克“白虎”，屡屡将苏军的坦克轰炸得机毁人亡。而这辆势不可挡的强大武器，总是从战场的硝烟中幽幽出现继而转瞬消失，没人能够确认它的真实存在，当然也无人否认。苏军指挥官决定建造一辆超级坦克T-34坦克的变种，与之抗衡。操纵该辆坦克的车长伊凡·纳季亚诺夫（阿列克谢·沃特考夫 Alexei Vertkov饰）是一位传奇人物。他曾在操纵坦克时，被“白虎”轰炸得体无完肤。死里逃生的伊凡不但活了下来，更拥有一种读懂“坦克语言”的特异功能。他坚信神秘的德军坦克“白虎”确实存在，并决心摧毁它。 由俄罗斯导演卡伦·沙赫纳扎罗夫执导的战争影片《白虎》，入围2012年第15届上海国际电影节金爵奖-最佳影片，并入围2013年第3届北京国际电影节国外展映单元-俄罗斯影展。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.
