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)
。。。用网文的思路去看顿时就好理解了，上古战争灭世，天魔横行奴役三界，为了推翻魔道人类不断派遣修士，结果被魔头挖出元婴，翻手间创世灭世（doge）
扭曲过后的世界或许就是这样血腥荒诞……疯神并不是神，而是异化了的人类自己
1.导演绝对玩过inside；
看这片能想到黑石板的热评的那位真是重量级，这片里是有狂乱，但你绝对无法找到崇高
以废土朋克风格定格动画表现的混合了宗教奇幻和政治隐喻的文明兴衰故事。本片的形式和主题高度统一，其黑色调性很容易使人联想到 Tim Burton 的一系列作品，但残酷程度则远甚之。影片的想象力之深刻壮阔令人叹服。
全部的历史不过是一场腐败，它的气味飘向未来：于是我们向它奔去
【2】不知所云
机器造出来的可能称为人吗？如同蚁巢中蝼蚁，不知生死只知劳作，奶牛牧人，孩童呓语
年度最节食的片，广大胖友们的刚需片，在你深夜刷吃播抑制不了口水时，可以点开来看看
中：哦，这里荣格了，肯定是。
形式大过内容 不过前期暗黑血腥与后期唯美生机的对比 还挺有意思的
音乐好听，画面恶心。
虽然很掉san，实际上后面还看困了，没想到这也能助眠，可能是太长了后面没啥新意，弄成短片多好
在走入高清的视觉之后 一切都不再显得神秘诡谲了
奥古斯丁说，“不要因为追求理解而失去了祂”。值得一看，但基本没看懂。以下是胡说：一种令人作呕的人文主义关怀（？），以通天塔的坍塌作为开篇，然后把整个故事放在《圣经》（或《神曲》）的故事框架中，让一个无名小卒去炸毁地狱，以这个小人儿（但丁）的视角勾勒出地狱的场景。地狱，是一个朋克到极致的工业社会，阎王爷是电脑里的娃儿（《喜马拉雅星》？），然后管理者是睾丸变成乳房的四腿哺乳动物，受惩罚的当然是由💩幻化而成的打工人了。打工人命如草芥，因工伤而死也无人问津，还时不时要去听一听巨婴领导的训话（？）。后面就没看懂了…..龙纹身的女孩儿把婴儿大蛞蝓献祭给了格格巫，格格巫又用魔药创造了宇宙，最后不忘像《太空漫游》致敬一下，砖头一样的iPhone在看着你，诞生出了尼采的超人～大致的意思是“毁灭吧，世界！”。
真看不懂导演想表达什么？也不愿意浪费脑细胞去猜测！电影中的元素太多了，感觉就是导演的思维垃圾桶，把平时的灵光一现都扔进来了，然后电影的形式发表出来。全程快进看完！
当然也可以简单的理解为
技术跪了 画面吐了
讲得很抽象，又碎片化，还有许多血腥恐怖画面比较无聊
苦心孤诣多年打造一场视觉盛宴，作为定格动画做到这般丝滑真不容易。故事太迷幻了！人类自身的恶永远超乎想象。
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