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.
6.2/10 把电话作为通灵媒介也太…俗了吧
是枝裕和会将任何故事变为是枝裕和的调子。
会感觉仓促潦草，那么多人物，拢不过来的动机，难以发展的矛盾。最难以相信的就是这个妈妈……
总体还不错，最后修女和辅警的剧情有点浅了，男孩的勇敢说话帮助记下信息和伊娃妈妈跑回家的长镜头值得感动
用唯美精致的画面拍出的风格，让观众（我）的喉咙像那个害怕天空的男孩…
全片过了三分二才出现轰炸那一幕，角色多戏份散，但是整个剧本的叙述并不是集中讲这个悲剧的引发过程，那两个飞行员的角色很重要，结果就是个龙套，故事用了很大一部分去描述其余几个小孩的命运交叠，又描述一个对信仰动摇的修女和纳税士兵的恋情，这三个主题都足以拍三个版本，但是却要缩在100分钟里，结果都没有说透。
Do it for me. Someday I have to stand up for myself. Someday is today.
就是小孩版密室逃生，但是各种bug，逃生线没做好；然后又加入妹妹通灵，哥哥接鬼电话，也没啥好看的；之后还想用心理困境强行拔高，硬生生想把恐怖片往文艺片上凑，更乱。
近乎真实还原了英军误炸法语女校事件，战争的残酷与惨烈，多处令人窒息。炸弹、女童、鲜血，还有上帝的假寐。
唯一的「敗筆」是萊姆雖被埋，說話依然元氣滿滿～
2022年3月11號/星期五
2.5；美国变态真他妈多。。很平庸的片子 最后草蛇灰线前后细节联系的还挺好 给个3星吧 不能再多！伊桑霍克是欠钱了吗要演这种角色 这大肚腩。。哭了
背景鋪墊可以再多點叭，喜歡通靈妹妹～ 恐怖片普遍分底➕一星。 2022.7.31 in.Tokyo
一场策划的轰炸计划，两个飞行员，被关在大楼里的人，学校的儿童和修女，流水账一样讲完了……被困在地下室的修女明明可以转过身来，为什么一直躺着一动不动？还以为在等最后有冲击力地展示给观众她全身被石头压住之类的……然后就结束了……
开屏暴击。广义上，我相信每个人都爱好和平，包括好战分子。只不过后者的“和平”是少数人的和平。战争没有对错，赢者为王，最无用的就是“谴责”二字。
为什么要了解罪犯的心路历程？还想看看来源？现在剧洗白太多有惯性？逃跑那几段+电话响起满足不了你是怎么着 这剧不是叫黑色电话吗 又不是黑色变态 什么叫烂片张嘴就来？光露出一双聚光小眼睛都知道是谁了 想看Ethan去看爱在三部曲去啊 意难平什么呢
是枝裕和的剧本，除了《步履不停》和《比海更深》，向来张力都非常大，但之前都被压在日常化的细节当中，有深味兼具叙事技巧。这部则直接不装了，摊牌了，我就编一个故事给你们看看，告诉你们无论什么样的故事:对人和生命情感状态的思考，才是根本，才能捕捉到普世情感的动人之处。这部并不是讲那个有点肮脏的世界变好的一瞬间，而是讲那些人到中年的家伙们，即便满心愁苦无所作为，也要坚持活下去，并心有所爱，也只有心有所爱，才能活的下去啊。
看完确实让人失望的感慨：“就这？”怪奇物语的大火已经把这种复古、儿童、恐怖的题材定义到一个新的高度，而本片在此框架下则显得十分无趣，伊桑霍克的角色也太过于酱油，电影内核青春成长以及外部的通灵也都十分老套，甚至有一种大数据剧本的廉价观感。拍的其实还不错，只是故事真的毫无新意且老套，在一个半小时的时长之内不管是孩子还是反派都过多的缺少人物描绘和动机，都成为为了满足电影结局而生凑起来的工具罢了。
根据真实事件改编的丹麦电影，1945年3月21日英国军队轰炸盖世太保总部，一架蚊式轰炸机撞到杆子坠毁到了一所学校，因为被浓烟干扰，第二队和第三队都只有一架飞机轰炸了盖世太保总部，其余的几架飞机均将炸弹投向了学校，最终造成学校附近123名平民死亡，包括87名儿童。电影从战争，抵抗，家庭，年轻人，孩子的视角切入，纵深揭示战争带给人们的创伤。没有一场战争是正义的，在枪炮面前，所有的生命都是不堪一击和脆弱的。世界和平应该是所有时代不分种族和年龄的人们的共同愿望。
男主某些角度好像小学生版的伯恩安德森！妹妹好像食了人间烟火的Wednesday😂
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