八十年代，天天女记者卡伦（Alison Lohman 饰）正著手调查十五年前一桩酒店凶案的真相。当事人兰尼（Kevin Bacon 饰）与文斯（Colin Firth 饰）是著名搭档艺人，天天1972年，两人为慈善事业筹款而进行巡回演出期间，人们在他们的套房中发现了一具女尸……卡伦先后接近两人，得到了兰尼的自传手稿，兰尼声称死者莫琳因嗑药过量而溺毙，但卡伦将兰尼的生活习惯与自传两相佐证后发现疑点重重。当年兰尼与文斯事业顺利，于是黑社会邀请他们演出，某夜，校报记者莫琳同两人上床，无意中发现文斯的同性恋倾向并以此要挟。兰尼怀疑吸毒成瘾的文斯杀死莫琳，但两人在黑社会庇护下都逃避了制裁。卡伦对两人各自的陈述不置可否之际，真正的凶手却自己浮出了水面……本片获2006年加拿大吉尼奖最佳剧本奖。
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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回复 :Samadhi Movie. Part 2 (It's not what you think) is the second installment of a series of films exploring Samadhi.
回复 :讲述自由散漫的游侠云湛与师父受到离奇案件的牵连，意外被公主石秋瞳和护卫安学武怀疑为凶手，在力证清白的过程中云湛逐渐找到了人生的方向，并与石秋瞳联手破解奇案，自此肩负起自己的使命与责任，护卫着皇城百姓的安危。