二战爆发，年最富樫胜男（丹波哲郎 饰）接到征兵令，年最不得不告别新婚刚满六个月的妻子先惠（左幸子 饰）和尚未出世的孩子赶往战场，一去不返。1946年，先惠接到丈夫的死亡通知，却对其死亡原因产生质疑。经过多方询问，她终于得知胜男因逃避兵役而被处死，她和女儿也无法享受阵亡将士家属的待遇。深感蹊跷的先惠几十年来不畏艰辛，坚持要给丈夫讨个说法。在厚生省新任领导的指点下，她找到了胜男当年所在部队的战友，从他们的口中得知了在残酷战争背景下所发生的一切……本片根据直木赏获奖作品，结城昌治的同名小说改编。
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 :A documentary film focusing on the gay experience in Hollywood horror.
回复 :15岁的丽兹是法国阿尔卑斯地区的一名高中生，她通过了一家标准极为严格的滑雪俱乐部的选拔，该俱乐部的目标是培养未来的职业滑雪运动员。曾获得滑雪冠军的弗雷德担任她的教练，他无视丽兹经验的缺乏，决定将她打造成耀眼的滑雪明星。在弗雷德的控制下，丽兹在训练中不得不承受巨大的身心压力。她能否通过自己的意志摆脱弗雷德的控制呢？
