渡边健二
发表于7分钟前回复 :就读于纽约某大学的贾丝廷(萝兰萨·伊佐 Lorenza Izzo 饰)是一名联合国官员的女儿,她原本优哉游哉,嬉笑怒骂,生活平淡无奇。偶然的机会,她受邀加入了由亚历杭德罗(艾瑞尔·利维 Ariel Levy 饰)领军的环保示威组织ACT。该组织近期正打算前往位于秘鲁亚马逊丛林的某个小村落,不久前该地发现丰富的天然气资源,而大型公司图谋砍伐丛林、驱逐村民,甚至不惜用到屠杀的手段。为了抗议这种不人道的暴行,ACT的各位经过周密规划启程来到秘鲁。这群在最发达的国家过惯了养尊处优生活的年轻人,带着半度假的心情来到了异国他乡。在经历了严峻的生死考验后,他们的抗议终于取得成功。谁知返程途中飞机出现故障坠毁,幸存者置身丛林中,而神秘的食人族正悄然向他们靠近……
黄羽承
发表于3分钟前回复 :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