16世纪，心动一个无名的炼金师为求得永生，心动制造了名为“魔鬼银爪（Cronos）”的装置。它可延续人的生命，令其恢复青春活力，却也要求人类付出相应的代价。几经辗转，收藏着魔鬼银爪的雕像落入善良的古董商人耶稣·格里斯（Federico Luppi 饰）的手中。他偶然发现这个装置 及其隐藏的秘密，于是对其产生依赖，任凭魔鬼银爪将他变成为了青春而嗜血的怪物。另一方面，身体羸弱的富商安吉拉·迪拉·加迪亚（Ron Perlman 饰）得知魔鬼银爪在耶稣的手中，于是千方百计要将它弄到手，为此不惜大开杀戒……本片为导演吉尔莫·德尔·托罗（Guillermo del Toro）的长片处女作，并荣获1993年墨西哥Ariel奖金奖和最佳男主角、最佳导演、最佳处女作、最佳原创故事、最佳制作、最佳编剧和最佳特效等多个奖项。
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 :一个关于吸引、恐惧和决断的爱情故事。两个性工作者在柏林成了同事。在这个把女性身体作为商品出售的地方，她们不知不觉间发展出了一段感情，体会着那些难得的快乐。
回复 :在从事电影行业之前，克莱尔·西蒙是一名编辑，后来她开始了短片和纪录片的创作，并同时以摄像师和演员的身份活跃在电影行业中。这部影片聚焦在几个伊夫里的十一年级学生上，他们的家庭背景，和父母的关系，对于未来的爱与梦想，都被摄像机记录了下来。短暂的十七岁充满了磕磕碰碰，它也带来了慰藉，这也是克莱尔想要她睿智而敏感的方式想要说明的：人会因为知道自己并不孤独而感觉到慰藉。
