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)
Netflix风格还是很明显。苏曼和女朋友在彩虹旗下奔跑那里，眼眶湿润了。
感觉印度拍同性恋情都比拍异性恋情更大胆，最后没有狗血与和稀泥真的不错，看的过程中我一直以为他们最后会去做人工授精呢。
结尾男主加入游行队伍的场景真的好触动我哦，拉拉线我真的太爱了东亚裔妹子长的好在我审美点上啊
《真雄起》到《永结同心》是质的飞跃，四年前还在很生硬地宣传同性恋不是变态，现在却已经深入到形婚，领养，公职人员这些比较成熟的话题了，再次可喜可贺！
2个多小时的电影，看下来还挺有意思的。合法收养，也许能拯救代孕的黑色产业。
3.5吧，玩得还是很早期的同志问题讨论，只是放在了印度这个宗教国家显得比较出挑。
最后的处理方式处理的极好
求求别再happy ever after了
同题材的电影欧美拍过很多甚至探讨也更深入，只不过印度文化语境在某些方面比西方更接近中国传统文化——父权制下女性被迫置于底层，沦为取悦男性和生育的机器。相似的家庭观念，熟悉的亲子关系，君君臣臣父父子子，看不到个体，传宗接代、养儿防老的传统思想，也有印度社会问题的反映，只不过这个结尾过于理想化了。
拍的一般，印度都开始拍这个题材了啊。女二蛮有味道的
结尾男主加入游行队伍的场景真的好触动我哦，拉拉线我真的太爱了东亚裔妹子长的好在我审美点上啊
好像第一次在印度电影里看见女配由藏族女星（不完全确定）扮演，可惜查不到这位女星的资料。
love is love，这题材能在这国家拍出来，更是能上映，我愿给5🌟好评！
虽然冗长，虽然还是动不动就唱跳，但是这个题材，印度拍，能拍能上不删减，我们两国互相学习取长补短好不
虽然很长，但是确实一部让人心有欢笑也有泪水的佳作。最能打动人心的莫过于感同身受，在同样保守而又大家庭聚居的印度，他们悄悄地隐藏着自己的性向，最终尝试着用形婚瞒天过海。但是用脚指头想也能知道，催婚之后必然催娃，在迟迟没办法生娃的情况下，这假冒的婚姻便因为一个谎言而用千百个其他的谎言遮盖，从而导致了被迫出柜的窘境。然而出柜没那么容易，领养更是一道难题，只有共同解决了所有潜在的风险，那么或许那个幸运的宝宝拥有别人没有过的双双亲。一直以为我们相对于印度远远超前，可在这方面，我们被甩掉了几条街。什么时候能够看到，彩色的庆典和游行在自己最爱的土地上无拘无束地进行
最近较火的同性题材的印度电影，电影本身水平一般，剧情也没什么亮点，拍的有些拖沓，当然这种为同性群体发声的电影能拍出来，本身就是一种社会进步，大家看完后也忘不了踩国内一脚。看过的同性题材电影不多，不过《断背山》和《喜宴》就差不多足够了吧。
其实就冲着一个男权思想严重，到处充斥着直男癌、直女癌、生育癌的国家能拍出这样的题材都值五星了。印度电影果然不负众望，每年都能拿的出来这样上乘的佳作，对比国产电影，。。真是羞愧。。。不过这部的缺点也挺明显，叙事方面略有欠缺，有点拖沓，而且人物心理活动的转折刻画也有点流于表面，尽管如此也无法掩盖印度能拍出这样电影是真的牛逼了！
真是很用心又结局完满了TT 能拍与否的区别真是T^T (医生小姐姐也太美了
在戏剧和现实之间，结局选择了“立意更高”的陈腔滥调，相互妥协，各不得罪，一应俱全，也就那样。
与其奢望敞开心扉接纳彼此，不如期望敞开心扉拥抱世界。虽然世界未必会接纳你，但至少自我接纳，毕竟冲突和难过最多也只是几分钟就平息，起码电影里面是这样子。
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