萨曼莎的母亲去世后,歌手她悲痛欲绝又怀着身孕,歌手科琳的突然出现让她精神振奋。科琳是萨曼莎失散已久的祖母,她突然出现,减轻了萨曼莎的痛苦,并引导她度过了怀孕的起起落落。尽管她最好的朋友艾米和她的丈夫布拉德提出了警告,萨曼莎还是一头扎进了她的新恋情。一切都很好,直到科琳黑暗的过去显露出来,她被迫为自己和家人的生命而战。
萨曼莎的母亲去世后,歌手她悲痛欲绝又怀着身孕,歌手科琳的突然出现让她精神振奋。科琳是萨曼莎失散已久的祖母,她突然出现,减轻了萨曼莎的痛苦,并引导她度过了怀孕的起起落落。尽管她最好的朋友艾米和她的丈夫布拉德提出了警告,萨曼莎还是一头扎进了她的新恋情。一切都很好,直到科琳黑暗的过去显露出来,她被迫为自己和家人的生命而战。
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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