陈悦
发表于2分钟前回复 :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
吕秀龄
发表于4分钟前回复 :就在谭帏郁闷之时,一个清新可人的女孩进入到谭帏视线,引起他的怀疑,经过谭帏的查实,文素洗去了嫌疑,就此相识,心生情愫,开始相恋。影子却音讯全无,谭帏派入卧底打入爱国同盟会内部,准备将同盟会一举歼灭时,走漏消息任务,再一次失败,文素又一次引起谭帏的怀疑,谭帏准备将文素抓捕时,文素却冒死替谭帏挡住了爱国同盟会的暗杀,文素的这一举动消除了谭帏的疑虑,谭帏觉得是自己错怪了文素,心里异常愧疚,这时,谭帏接到指令去张大帅府上拿到绝密名单,张大帅五姨太生日宴会那天,谭帏混入宴会窃取名单,名单拿到手后,却遭遇神人抢夺,俩人厮杀,这时,谭帏才知道文素就是影子,一直潜伏在自己身边获取情报,谭帏不忍杀害文素,毅然决然的放掉文素,自己却被情报处的人抓住,生死难料,得知谭帏被抓,文素冒死相救,俩人经历了生死的考验,最后,谭帏随着文素加入同盟会,走上革命的道路。