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)
第一视角的心境抓得蛮到位，操场上激吻真的好勇啊，有一些细节其实把我看笑了，还可以看
不喜欢这样的设定，拍的很没有创新和创新，基本讲这样题材的女性电影都会这么拍，所有的水准都是很一般的水准，演技又不在线，青春不青春，社会不社会，都是表达了一个表面的现象，拍成这样应该更多的是满足导演的个人喜好吧…
为什么为什么为什么结局是这个样子的....都两情相悦为什么不在一起啊TT
錯過了《一級指控》，把戲飛給了這套。影評人對兩位新導演真的很好了，有讚無彈。只能說還有很多進步空間，希望能收個五百萬吧，再給我從小就開始看的楊潮凱一個機會。兩位主角倒是演得不錯，一個有演技，一個合眼緣。
你开始、她有意，你开始、她退却，她犯错、你负担，她犯错、因你而失去，她追逐、你摒弃，你……，她成全。爱了一场错误，春帷既揭，你们哒哒地重复错过。
《蓝宇》的台词配上那个画面，真是爱而不得。面对爱情，不在乎是谁，只是因为是你，所以就一直珍惜着那份美好的回忆，即使最后我们只能冠上“好朋友”来定义我们的关系。
因为我只有你这一个朋友。
只能不断的跳过跳过跳过
整部电影几乎都看不进去，亲吻交谈和床戏都感觉情绪不够，让人觉得有点别扭，不知道是剧情问题还是演技问题，此处对比的是《蝴蝶》。拉快进的方式直接来到婚礼，从靠近说“你的内衣又扣错了”开始感到震动，从这里到全片结束的五六分钟里，层层堆叠上去，眼泪在回忆画面两人坐在地板上看电视，女生睡着了，另一个靠近很温柔的说“我爱你”，此刻情绪被带到峰值。难究其因，但爱情它来过，存在过。
拍摄手法和画面都很青涩，可是人物塑造得挺好的，本来看评分这么低，冲着颜去看的，没想到太多画面跟记忆重合，最后哭得比主角们还惨
前期是考虑主角的年纪疯狂加了厚滤镜么？我以为自己眼花了。显得镜头非常没质感。剧情还是那个剧情。虽然家长得知这件事没有暴跳如雷，也不能称作开明，而是觉得这只是女孩间某种玩乐。长发女孩有很多“梦想”，梦想爱情梦想职业梦想未来。可是原生家庭不允许她任性，她也就妥协了吧。写下这段话，我突然理解了她的选择。年轻的爱情好鲜甜，不论悲喜。祝她幸福，
我也是真喜欢你。”
通过考古知道了最近某音很火的短视频剧情原来就来自这里
不懂为什么会有人推荐我看，这不就是一部普通的拉拉青春片，最开始还暗恋男老师写情书的情窦初开少女，怎么就能被闺蜜给掰弯，在我的精神世界里无法理解，现在的本土港片也就只能拍这些了。看到这个片名我就不自觉唱出来，许志安当年那首同名歌对我太洗脑了，此时此刻看完我满脑子还是只有那首歌“喜欢你是你，疼你做多，喜欢我是我，因此你属于我……”
想给五星又觉得差了点什么 给四星又觉得少了一点 就像她们的爱情 就是差了点什么
1⃣️人生有太多来不及告别的。2⃣️两个人有共同的过去，却不一定有共同的回忆。有3⃣️几段还蛮无聊的，但有些又很有趣。4⃣️一直都是芯悦比较勇敢，帮咏蓝承认带手机、雨中在操场激吻、被让写检讨书却并不想承认错误…但是为什么坚持到最后的却是咏蓝呢？婚礼上，悦给蓝戴上戒指的那一幕，我觉得我的心都碎了…5⃣️你离开后，我活成了你的样子。
我理解女一始终如一，也理解女二的妥协现实。这无关对错
杨偲永和陈妍希有点像诶
我想了一下，都是因为你，你喜欢女人？是啊。那女儿不都遗传你吗！哈哈哈哈虎狼之词搞笑又温暖的逻辑，面对孩子喜欢同性，父母选择跟孩子冷静下来沟通，hk好像还挺包容自由的？电影比较鸡肋，画面剪辑都很mv水平，食之无味弃之可惜，给个及格分吧
有点意思啊
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