一个连环杀手连续13个冬天在圣诞节前夕行凶,京东马上就要圣诞节了,调查人员与时间赛跑,争分夺秒想要弄清楚这位圣诞杀手的下一个目标是什么。
一个连环杀手连续13个冬天在圣诞节前夕行凶,京东马上就要圣诞节了,调查人员与时间赛跑,争分夺秒想要弄清楚这位圣诞杀手的下一个目标是什么。
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 :19岁的女孩洁依(麦卡·梦露 Maika Monroe 饰)美丽迷人,她憧憬浪漫美好的青春恋情,却未曾想莫大的灾难突然降临。她和男孩休(杰克·威尔瑞 Jake Weary 饰)外出约会,期间休表现出恐慌的一面。在那个迷离的夜晚,燕好之后的洁依遭到休粗暴对待,继而得知休恐 慌的原因。原来一直有一个他人看不见的“人”跟随着休,TA可以变换任何人的容貌,并以杀死休为目标。摆脱TA的方法只有通过性将其转给其他人。自此之后,洁依无时无刻不出在恐慌之中,妹妹凯莉以及好友保罗、雅拉等人为其担忧,可是那看不见的追踪者随时随地出现。TA是洁依无法摆脱的原罪,是投射在灵魂深处的恐怖阴影……
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