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发表于7分钟前回复 :艾迪安(伯努瓦·马吉梅 Benoît Magimel 饰)的发迹史并不光彩,甚至可以说非常丑陋。虽然他当上了跨国企业的新任总裁,一时风光无限。但是,艾迪安过去所作所为,仍为人不齿。他是靠搭上总裁女儿(朱莉·葛耶 Julie Gayet 饰)得到了女婿的身份,期间还参与了多次肮脏的商业交易。这些罪过让艾迪安上台时内心非常纠结。或许是良心发现,让他对过去犯下的罪过不断忏悔。在好友帕特里克(弗朗索瓦-格扎维埃·德梅松 Francois-Xavier Demaison 饰)的劝说下,艾迪安决定找到当初被自己陷害以致晚年无着落的米什莱(多米尼克·拉布里埃 Dominique Labourier 饰),希望给予他经济补偿,以消除内心的负罪感。然而,米什莱拒绝了艾迪安,两人还为此发生了冲突。情急之下,鲁莽的帕特里克失手将米什莱杀死。这使得艾迪安陷入了更深的泥潭之中……
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发表于6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