剧情简介
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周冠宇
回复 :一个关于吸引、恐惧和决断的爱情故事。两个性工作者在柏林成了同事。在这个把女性身体作为商品出售的地方，她们不知不觉间发展出了一段感情，体会着那些难得的快乐。
王艺霖
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
传田真央
回复 :埃里森·奥斯沃特（伊桑·霍克 Ethan Hawke 饰）是一个十几年前小有名气的犯罪小说作家，为了寻找创作灵感，他不惜一次次搬入曾经发生过命案的凶宅。时至今日，为了重现往昔的辉煌，他再次带着妻子崔茜（Juliet Rylance 饰）以及一双儿女特里夫（Michael Hall D'Addario 饰）和艾丝莉（Clare Foley 饰）搬入一栋凶宅。在收拾阁楼时，他偶然发现一卷家庭录影带，里面记录着房子前主人一家快乐幸福的生活瞬间以及他们被吊死在树上的惨烈画面。此后的日子里，他一遍遍观看录影带，从中寻找罪犯的蛛丝马迹，并且在房屋内的每个角落追查线索。在这一过程中，各种诡异事件相继在家人身上发生。埃里森此时已难以抽身……
