周德根在一场意外车祸中与抢劫犯罪团伙头目程航调换了身份,父亲被警方误认为犯罪嫌疑人程航。在开庭的前一天,父亲警长发现程航并非本人。另一方面,程航手下为分得赃物勒索程航之妻,两人为救程妻,开始了与程航手下的搏斗。
周德根在一场意外车祸中与抢劫犯罪团伙头目程航调换了身份,父亲被警方误认为犯罪嫌疑人程航。在开庭的前一天,父亲警长发现程航并非本人。另一方面,程航手下为分得赃物勒索程航之妻,两人为救程妻,开始了与程航手下的搏斗。
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 :Sequel to Rob Lowe's 2018 The Bad Seed, follows now 15-year-old Emma, as she is sent off to boarding school where a new girl seems to know Emma's secrets, leading Emma to to slip back to her old ways.
回复 :一名正在服刑的重犯在休假時離開監獄,但沒有準時返回,此時又發生一名年輕女子遭到謀殺的命案。法醫精神病學家羅曼梅特勒驚覺必須為自己辯護,因為同意重犯休假的報告是他寫的,一切的不利證據指向這位重刑犯,但事實卻是如此嗎?還是另有其不可逆的佈局?