封闭守旧的美国小镇闯进了一个神秘女子格蕾斯（妮可•基德曼 Nicole Kidman 饰）。她美丽善良，得得到底正在逃避歹徒追杀。镇中的作家汤姆力劝村民留下这个女子，得得到底让她暂时在镇里避过难关。然而条件就是格蕾丝要干各种农活来偿还。人们同意了，不久后却发现格蕾丝是一个通缉中的逃犯。大家要把格蕾丝赶走，最后答应，如果她更卖力的干活，才可以在这里逗留。格蕾丝日以继夜的劳作，终难逃过不幸的事情发生。一个镇民在警察搜捕后，强暴了格蕾丝。龌龊的事情拉开了序幕：人们开始随意的污辱她，甚至连汤姆，也揭开了善良的面具，格蕾斯沦为镇上的一条狗，干活，受罪，善良的心也有了渐渐的改变。镇上的人怎么也想不到，这个女子的神秘身世，让此刻的污辱成为了他日的灭顶之灾。
邓卫
回复 :The story appears simple on the surface, but is revealed, especially after multiple viewings, as more multi-layered and textured than Cassavetes at his best. Ostensibly it concerns a 14-year old Catholic girl, Wynne (Agutter) growing up in this post-modern wasteland, who develops a crush on her much older adoptive brother (Marshall)- a crush which perversely deepens and grows into infatuation once she starts to believe he is the local sex killer. This is in itself an idea that makes you sit up and jolt, but as the narrative develops, it continues not necessarily along a linear path but in several confusing and fascinating directions: the family's history, (detailed effectively in chilling flashback during an improvised seance) is a chequered one, and has suffered at least one major relocation and upheaval in the last ten years.At the crux, however, it's the depiction of socialal changes that make I Start Counting so fascinating and elevate its language far beyond the confines of the standard horror film. The major subtext- that teenage girls were maturing more quickly than before, and developing full sexual and romantic appetites (even if in thought rather than deed) but were not possessed of enough discretion to make the right choices- was a step forward for a genre in which its young females had previously been portrayed as bimbo victims (Cover Girl Killer and The Night Caller spring to mind), but not one that all viewers would necessarily agree with.But most striking of all, and possibly the most enduring image which the viewer will take away with them, is of the masterful symbolism with which director Greene invests every shot. Every inch of the Kinch family's world- their house, their walls, their TV, Agutters underwear, bedroom furniture and toys, Sutcliffe's clothes, Marshalls van, the local Catholic church, their town centre, their record shop) - is painted a bright, scintillating white- a white which, by inference, is slowly becoming smudged and corrupted with the dirt of the outside world. White also symbolises, of course, purity and innocence (two qualities Catholic schoolgirls are supposed to hold dear), and it is into this world of innocence that the ever-present red bus (a symbol of violation and penetration), conducted by the lecherous yet similarly juvenile Simon Ward, makes regular journeys. The allegory is further expanded in one scene where Agutter believes she sees the Christ figure in church weeping blood: by the time we acknowledge it, its gone, but the seed has already been planted. Rarely in a genre production has the use of colour and background been so important or effective in creating a uniformity of mood.I Start Counting is as near-perfect an end to a decade as one could hope for, and exactly the kind of film people should be making now- which is, of course, exactly why they never will. A genre essential.by D.R. SHIMON@lounge.moviecodec.com
黄心懋
回复 :塔西（赞达亚 饰）曾是网球奇才，后来转为教练，在场上和场下都有股不容忽视的强大力量。她的丈夫阿特（迈克·费斯特 饰）曾经拿下冠军但后来屡次连败，正当她计划为他挽救劣势时，发生了出乎意料的转折；她的丈夫对上了过气的帕特里克（乔什·奥康纳 饰），他曾是塔西的前男友， 同时也是她丈夫过往的死党。随着他们的过去与现在互相冲击，紧张局势随之升高，塔西必须自问，为了获胜需要付出何种代价。
张启辉
回复 :风雅大宋，繁华清丽，户列珠玑，百业向荣。然盛世之下，暗流汹涌，专供官家之端砚，竟被人谋私取利。皇城司女将方庭云因此奉命，单骑白马入端溪。元夜雪、箫鼓喧,端溪玉壶光转、宝马雕车，然而此时却突发五神索命之案，追查中方庭云亦成疑凶。为求真相，方庭云周旋于云波诡谲的端溪，开始查访。掌控黎庶的知县、步步为营的少年、快意江湖的游侠、游走坊市的捕快、赤诚耿直的县尉、往事难觅的掌柜……一个个人物粉墨登场。盗官灭门、夺砚复仇、嫁祸栽赃、同僚相残、贡砚走私……一桩桩互有关联的案件，离奇曲折。一卷以鲜血为底、以昌盛泼墨、以风雅着色的大宋山河图，在方庭云进入端溪那夜，徐徐展开……
