剧情介绍

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. 

评论:

  • 镇冰蝶 6小时前 :

    陪大宝二宝一起看的,看之前还担心二宝坚持不了100分钟,做好中途退场的准备。事实是我多虑了,各个角色的造型都摆脱了电视动画的糙劲,变得圆润和萌感。剧情还好没有因为动画片糊弄。没有让人不适的镜头和场面,参考了机甲动画的创意。最后的机甲大战就是奥特曼大战怪兽的翻版。有笑点 ,有煽情。适合全家一起观看。熊出没系列一年一步的节奏注定会长期坚持下去。

  • 豆寄柔 2小时前 :

    宽容,是人性中善和恶最好的润滑剂!

  • 祖叶嘉 3小时前 :

    人生低谷,能放下包袱,找到出口的寥寥无几,电影期盼做出改变的人多一些。

  • 震辰 6小时前 :

    朋友推荐,第一次进电影院看“熊出没”大电影,而且还是科幻与环保主题的。话说现在凡是与科幻有关的IP都挺火,所以“熊出没”系列也没能免俗,这一部在系列中不算出色,整体设定显得低幼且无聊(小朋友们或许爱看?),除了熊二变身与高燃打斗段落可看以外,其余都乏善可陈。尽管是一个人包场结果还是不争气地睡过去了,就像在看中学科教片一样人昏昏欲睡……不过片中的设定还是深得我心——宇宙之大却“只有一个地球”,疯狂的人类请不要再破坏环境了,否则我们将成为无家可归的流浪儿。

  • 曾依云 3小时前 :

    熊出没大电影现在已经进化到这种地步,牛逼,超精细顶尖的3D视效没有IMAX格式太可惜了,故事有温暖的内核,积极向上的主题,环保、科普元素也融合的很好,满场的小朋友大喊“熊二加油!”就知道片子有多成功。今年春节档其他影片都应该感谢《熊出没》手下留情,既没有大张旗鼓的宣发,也没有搞IMAX这些高级格式,虽然是3D票价并没有比其他2D的更离谱,老老实实地只想挣点小朋友和家长的钱。

  • 玄寻桃 3小时前 :

    2022021 题材好,但故事铺陈的节奏一般,导致整个片给予的冲击力会逐渐弱化。

  • 遇宏胜 8小时前 :

    最後看畫的時候還是被打動到了,女孩不算白來一遭,留下了些許美好,就像天空的海豚雲。

  • 腾逸 9小时前 :

    非常典型的东亚家庭悲剧,而线上线下荒谬的割裂感,无法用文字填补,而霓虹人的原罪感,真的看着难受。

  • 汪芃芃 7小时前 :

    主人公偏执的性格使全片氛围压抑,然而是不断继续伤害还是放过别人,直到全片的转折点主人公与女肇事者母亲的对话给出答案。

  • 桂诗 2小时前 :

    精彩,特效更强了,部分地方也挺有泪点,熊出没电影质量一直是春节档最稳的电影

  • 桂梦易 6小时前 :

    选材很讨巧 注定了这故事的深思 喜欢父亲道歉那场戏 也许这就是人性中的善

  • 禚雅容 1小时前 :

    带儿子看的,虽说抄的东西挺多,给小孩看还凑合吧。

  • 罕语林 1小时前 :

    执念或偏执令人食之无味,生活的汤里加盐? 和解,罢了。

  • 萱璟 5小时前 :

    与自己和解的过程 很久没有过电影结束全场鼓掌的时刻了

  • 瞿青梦 0小时前 :

    从“肇事”自杀女司机母亲的道歉开始,这片急转直下,太割裂了吧,前半部讲社会问题,后面讲和解与亲情。导演把前面的东西都丢掉了,可观众还在里边呢!

  • 骏伟 8小时前 :

    来看看抄袭了多少电影,首先,漫威和DC都有,更多是漫威,超人起源、蜘蛛侠拉火车、毁灭者机甲、绿魔装备、钢铁侠、黑豹、蝎子。

  • 祢驰颖 0小时前 :

    越来越喜欢情绪化的电影,虽然看着很压抑,但是每个人都很鲜活,一个人的情绪牵动着一波人,愤世嫉俗地拍法,每一份自认为的真相背后还有什么,真的是伪善么?大家都是受害者大家都活在压抑中,和解真的太难了,好痛苦。那么到底谁错了,只能说是穷追不舍的媒体了,喜欢这种反应社会问题的电影

  • 骑嘉年 2小时前 :

    最后老板娘抛弃了勇敢牛牛,爱上了熊二。 要是结尾哥斯拉大战金刚既视感那一段能更长一点,一次看过瘾,可以四星。 拉二胡改成吹唢呐也不错,哈哈

  • 运震 5小时前 :

    贺岁片唯一常青树居然是熊大熊二。。。和光头强

  • 滕康裕 0小时前 :

    桃李这几年挑剧本的眼光越来越稳,古田桑演得真不错

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