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)
绝对是我近年来看过的最佳影片！真想象力爆棚，信息量爆炸，多重宇宙已经不新鲜了，但却能做到这么复杂密集的对话和情节下仍然带动了情感和逻辑的贯通，实在让人佩服，多重宇宙代表了多种可能，每一个不同的抉择都诞生不同的人生，情节上致敬了不少经典电影，动作戏上又带有中国传统功夫的美轮美奂，后半段不断冲刷我的认知和理解，在整部片如此宏大的设定和虚无缥缈的主义中却夹杂最简单最理智的主题：善良。即使在最离奇荒诞的宇宙里，我们总有爱的东西。故事在阐述情感上也对父女，母女等关系融入了探讨。剪辑大胆，画面绚丽，节奏紧凑，天马行空，震撼又感人，真相当于一部加长版《瑞克和莫蒂》，如此精彩如此让人疯狂！大爱
恕我欣赏无能，简单来说就是：眼花缭乱，色彩缤纷的一顿窜稀。
形式上真的很华丽有趣，也看哭了。内容上老实说，对“妈妈”这个角色的描述也没什么新意。妈妈必须承担一切，理解一切。要救老救小，体谅和接受所有人。妈妈没有别的选择，有的话也不能选、不会选。流下的泪，可能并不是因为母爱，只是那些她没有可能拥有的自我，很多妈妈真的也不能拥有。
我和赵先生恰好是放映厅里唯二的华人，和周围其他族裔的人一起笑一起哭。always be kind。so damn proud！
这部电影是21世纪版的《你一生的故事》有一种编剧把姜ted的小说重新写了一遍的感觉。要说有什么深意嘛，大概就是杜顺大师在《五教止观》中写的：“童子进入楼阁发现里面都是珠光宝镜，宝珠把宇宙精神之光普照出来，消灭宇宙一切黑暗，一切障碍。” #一即一切#
日常崩塌的时刻。风格太喜欢了，结实到没有缝隙令人喘不过气的现实感和滑稽离谱的戏谑竟能这样完美的结合在一起。大概没有哪个国家的代际冲突像中国这么强了吧，放在华裔身上愈发显眼。这应该是目前讲华裔最好的片子了吧。华人父母在扮演父母时是那么用力，趋向于一个统治者，以爱的名义。杨紫琼在为自己对女儿不离不弃的爱感动时，女儿节节后退，太典型了。欧美的问题父母的表现（至少在文艺作品里）基本就是虐待狂，家暴者，吸毒者和酒鬼。
怎么华裔拍来拍去都是这种tiger mother和子女和原生家庭和解的片子………都说有想象力，我怎么觉得反而是想象力的匮乏…
奇奇怪怪 可可爱爱 内容好满 故事核心又很简单
感觉是某种移一代的精神困境：跑出来一辈子，忙忙碌碌，最后发现留在故乡可能是最好的选择，回看当初那些下定过的决心，不禁觉得有点可笑。看到女儿因为母亲的不理解而大费周章毁灭世界，不仅感触良多，由于从小在富饶的美利坚生活，不知道真正的痛苦和地狱为何物，母亲和她的隔膜天然产生而不可调解。电影只是通过母亲的妥协，用一个美好的结局对这个裂痕一带而过了
脑洞挺好看啊，很飞，很敢瞎编，就是说教多了点
尽管看过上万部影视，这部备受我期待的《瞬息全宇宙》里那些应接不暇、脑洞大开、天马行空的想象画面依然让我感到惊艳，为眼花缭乱的特效与剪辑点赞，通过电影体验非比寻常的超现实是我喜闻乐见的观影趣味。片中还有一些不只是把我逗乐而是令我哈哈大笑的段落：1.抢塞肛门的情节（前面看到奖杯的外形就邪恶了下，没想到后续竟延伸出如此设计）；2.真人版“料理浣熊王”的亮相；3.SM戏码；4.杨紫琼亲自模仿“料理鼠王”；……P.S.：男主角竟然是曾经观看《夺宝奇兵2》《七宝奇谋》时惊喜过我的关继威！& 虽然略显杂乱的故事剧情有些影响爽度，但我个人整体观感还是胜过《瑞士军刀男》。—— 搜啊找啊，总算知道片中石头段落让我联想起的动画短片了，是《轮盘记》。
《青春变形记》的剧本要拍几版？咋了全美国的亚裔就只有青春反叛期的烦恼可以拍吗
不好看，甚至觉得无聊，对移民题材无感，对超级英雄无感，那个丈夫一讲普通话就像个尖声细嗓的公公，实在是emmm
电影拍的眼花缭乱，还不就是老掉牙的美式合家欢。台词太多显得苍白，炫技式剪辑不知所云，故事撑不起野心，感情渲染太突兀，表现过度最后就是虎头蛇尾，一部合格的快餐电影，看到一半就甚是疲惫。
最喜欢悬崖上那段对话和王家卫滤镜下街角歌星角色和丈夫的对白。从刚开始开始，每个人就都代表一个尽头。生活冗杂的、光鲜耀眼的、底层的、怪诞的、哲理的、庸碌的都都差不多守恒的难过和开心。
其实不需要多重宇宙，不吃甜甜圈就好了，哈哈。邓莹给了一个很经典的评价，说“和王晶的电影相比，我还是更喜欢王晶。”哈哈。年轻人的视角向来如此，既然无法毁灭糟糕的世界，我希望找个人来爱我，与我共情。导演的问题就在这里，他的眼里只有糟糕的世界，却没有糟糕世界里“有趣”的东西。就像安迪沃霍尔说的，一篇糟糕的文章来自于无视正在发生的“无聊/有趣”的事情。
虎头蛇尾，创意虽然还行，但我看过超感8人组，这个就感觉不算啥吧。。。而且电影内核实在很空洞，片子开头给女主设置了很多困难，最后的情感落点和解决方式却过于草率。加上我最近也有看了青春变形记，我觉得这部还不如它呢，它最后妈妈好歹放手了，这部最后。。。感觉含糊其辞假模假样地大团圆，虚无主义者的三观怎么可能这么轻飘飘就拉回来了啊，而且女主的困境，女儿的困境明明来自于整个父权社会，怎么能可能是家庭内部的和解可以治愈的呢。
能把一个简单的家庭伦理问题拍成这样我真的respect🙏大震撼
6.看的全程都是：“这TM怎么想出来的”“这TM怎么拍出来的”“这TM怎么画分镜”。
能把一个简单的家庭伦理问题拍成这样我真的respect🙏大震撼
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