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发表于8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
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发表于3分钟前回复 :玛丽安(凯瑟琳·德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰)和约翰(大卫·鲍伊 David Bowie 饰)已经不太记得请他们究竟在一起多长时间了,他们只知道,每过7天,他们都需要饮下人类的血液,以此保留青春,没错,他们都是吸血鬼。约翰的突然衰老给玛丽安带来了恐慌,因为在她漫长了生命里,这样的事情发生过不止一次,然而每一次,能终结这种衰老的只有死亡。萨拉(苏珊·萨兰登 Susan Sarandon 饰)将自己的毕生精力都投入到了研究长生不老药上面,不幸的是,萨拉的研究也无法挽救约翰,他最终死去。美丽性感的莎拉吸引了玛丽安的注意,可莎拉却并不想像玛丽安那样变成吸血鬼。为了反抗玛丽安,莎拉选择了自杀,站在莎拉的尸体旁,玛丽安知道,自己将再一次陷入到无尽的孤独和寂寞之中。