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.
如果这就是流放生活，有海鲜吃、有欧巴桑陪、有书读、有徒收，我也很想被流放啊……
一部绝望与希望交织的电影。
彩色的星空，海胆里的雏鸟
人如果在生活中被剥夺了所有，甚至是理想信念也被彻底击垮的时候，应该怎么活下去呢。也许可以参照这部电影的做法，就是重新给自己寻找新的信仰，并以此为生活己任，勇敢的苟活下去。说到底，以前拥有的那些虚名也就那么回事，你自己经历过后就会发现，还不如在这里生活来的自在安稳。有的人注定就是属于某个地方的，去别的地方怎么都会适应不来，这也就是生活的奇妙之处了。
若是人间不值得，就多抓鱼吧。世间万物自有道。
一曲理想主义者的悲歌：糊口易，得道难，若要济世却几乎不可能，他们只能退隐山林，享受属于他们的孤独，所谓“小隐隐于野，大隐隐于市”则是可遇不可求的一种境界。
PS：新年第一天给自己注入一些正气。
根据真实故事改编。地狱空荡荡，恶魔在人间——赤裸裸展现了印度种姓制度的劣根、强权体制的阶级压迫。不作任何渲染的镜头下，是纯粹而可怕的野蛮暴力，是单纯善良的劳动人民手无缚鸡之力的悲哀。
前半段极具文人电影的气质，后半段又绕回韩国类型片了
妻子不退缩不妥协，她只要正义。律师为人权而战，他们对抗的是当权者，是体制。
如果我拿了钱，我的孩子问我：我们的钱是哪儿来的？的时候，我要怎么回答呢？告诉她这是打死你爸爸的人给我们的，所以他们没有受到惩罚吗？
不是華影，勝似華影。上一次有這種感受，還是韓影——《醉畫仙》
师徒因为中西文化信仰的矛盾而分开，最后的结果恰恰是很好的证明，真理应该是怎样吧。
三星半，拍得很美。文本不是很流畅，也可能是翻译的问题？
如果不能学以致用，那便按自己的性情活着好了。
这部三月底才上映的电影，就被下周要举行的百想提名最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳剧本、最佳双男主。如果不是因为提名，我可能根本不会知道它。如何在东西方文化碰撞的腐败现世里追求信仰，如诗如画娓娓道来。非常喜欢。简单查了一下导演李濬益的作品集：王的男人、思悼、素媛………难怪。
若是不能按照所学来生活，就得按照自己的性格来生活
“贱民”似乎与美国的黑奴一样的性质，美国那边现在真的实现了人人平等，而印度的“贱民”们虽受到了宪法的保护，然而时至今日他们仍没有得到所有人的尊重，不过，看了这部电影，对印度成为一个更美好国家抱持无比的信心。我们自己也加油！！！
没法相信，最能拍好中国文人的，竟然是韩国。
印度低种姓这种按照种族划分人群的制度至今依旧存在，影响是根深蒂固的，极其负面。影片基于这样一个背景，揭露这种体制下种种不公正待遇。一个抓蛇人含冤入狱被殴打致死，正义的律师克服万难，冤情才得以洗刷。但凡有关人权的议题，都与我们无关，一个在我们这无从展开的话题，就连探讨别人影片的内容都成了禁忌。递刀子这事肯定不能干，别人拿着刀子自己捅自己，我们驻足观看都不行——这就是现行审查制度铁一样的逻辑所在。与后来的《宿敌》立意接近，关照现实，意义深远。就表达方式和技巧而言是陈旧的、甚至是落后的。
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