年轻女子伊丽莎白·本顿（梅勒妮·帕帕拉 Melanie Papalia 饰）正就网络聊天软件the DEN申请课题和资金展开人类行为学研究，黄特她尝试和世界各地的网友聊天，黄特希望能调查他们的上网习惯和兴趣。虚拟的网络让人们有了释放自我和欲望的空间，而摄像头又满足了他们宣泄与窥视的欲望。浏览网络，世界各地的人们尽情展示着他们诙谐、丑陋、罪恶的一面。这一天，伊丽莎白偶然和一个静止头像的女孩聊天，随后竟目击了对方被残忍杀害的一幕。受到惊吓的伊丽莎白连忙报警，但警方不置可否，她的男友达米安（David Schlachtenhaufen 饰）也认为视频系伪造而成。直到某天，达米安突然消失，而她的朋友也都被卷入一连串的恐怖事件中。网络让恶之花迎风怒放……
回复 :电影放映员谦（Ter-Chantavit Dhanasevi 饰）因沉迷大麻而陷入经济危机，毒瘾发作之际甚至不惜典当女友诵（Punch-Vorakarn Rojjanavatchra 饰）的手表，为此诵愤然离开。决心洗心革面的谦此时仍在泥潭之中，为了还上欠款，他被黑道人物逼迫盗录还未上映的新片，以谋取不义之财。某晚，谦和好友育在影院盗录一部即将上映的恐怖片《厉鬼》。中途打瞌睡的谦醒来，却发现育已不见踪影，最后竟发现育的尸体出现在影片之中。不久后他得知，影片根据一个真实事件改编，片中死于吊颈的扶桑嫂竟然确有其人。他和诵共同走访案件发生地，却无意中得知了影片拍摄过程中的秘密……
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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
回复 :故事讲述三个年轻人开始一场公路旅行，途中他们偶遇三个音乐家，几人约定参加一个聚会，不料杀身之祸降临，凶手似乎就在身边。
