在一座偏僻的农场上，暖花有一位男子慢慢地走向死亡。他卧病在床，暖花挣扎地吸吐他最后几口气。他的妻子逐渐被沉重巨大的哀伤压垮。两人的一双儿女Louise（玫琳爱尔兰Marin Ireland饰）和Michael（小迈克尔阿伯特Michael Abbott Jr.饰）回到农场上，要协助母亲走过伤痛并和父亲道别。Louise和Michael很快地注意到母亲不单只是被悲伤所困扰。随着姊弟两人的悲伤加剧，他们开始感受到一股黑暗力量，恶梦般的事件接踵发生，这故黑暗力量似乎想要吞噬他们一家人。
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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 :在乍得的恩贾梅纳郊区，Amina和她15岁的独生女Maria独居在一起。她本已脆弱的世界，在她发现女儿怀孕的那天分崩离析。对方少年并不想要这个孩子。在一个堕胎不仅受到宗教谴责，而且会受到法律谴责的国家，Amina发现自己面临着一场似乎提前失败的斗争......
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