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.
舒适圈挺好的，能一辈子待着也是一种幸福。我们不能选择自己的出生，却能为他人的出生变成更好的自己。
美国人民也觉得cia非常操蛋，凯奇终于演了一个不是烂片的电影，可喜可贺。另外她闺女的演员，因为姓sheen，我还以为是查理辛的闺女，没想到不是，但是她妈是凯特贝金赛。
自我调侃的尼古拉斯.凯奇有一种别样的魅力，搞笑的地方常常从现实跳进影片里，来回切换更加有趣。其实后半段就觉得这应该是戏中戏，不然中间那些无厘头简直离谱，不过总体来说，终于从低潮走出来的凯奇，值得掌声。
75cannes首映/中庸的故事，与我相悖的生养观，一无是处的女演员，是枝裕和的复杂与细腻全都丢失了，很多设计（eg摩天轮的运用、火车灯光）太平平无奇，刁亦男都比他有创意，导演老啦。另，还是认为男导演请慎重触碰女性题材（滨口龙介除外）。
但执行中却有些问题
虽然凯奇在电影里跟富家翁讨论时说决不能拍俗套的电影，可这部电影还是落入了俗套——一无是处、糟烂的人生，恰到好处出现的CIA（CIA在全世界做了那么多的坏事、恶事、反人类的罪行，偏偏在电影里总是扮演拯救世界、一脸正义的角色，这就是影视剧的魅力——颠倒黑白）、莫名其妙跳出来的反派，对付凑数的动作戏……凯奇的烂片之王的名号估计是要伴随他到坟墓了！
# 75 Cannes 主竞赛# 继拍法国扑街，拍韩国面临再次扑街，有河濑直美这么好看的前作，何必把这么老套的故事再次搬上银幕呢
3-…有点逗但也没有那么逗，凯奇叔好像翻身了但又好像只是做了个仰卧起坐…
📍5.27戛纳首映 韩国旅行版《小偷家族》，是枝裕和最擅长的血缘亲情，但人物构成更复杂。结尾太糟糕了，一瞬间以为他们也要经中国广电审查（半星给我为是枝裕和排的队，半星给iu看我美貌杀人）
这个点子很不错啊，主线剧情也很顺，但所有细节推进都太白给，导演太差了太粗糙了玩得也不够野。凯奇还完债还是好汉！
大概凯奇演烂片太多了，所以稍微有个能看的就咋咋呼呼的。有些小聪明和癫狂的桥段，整体一般。凯奇要翻身还得继续努力，接点别这么胡闹的剧本。
终于不是烂片了，而且是有预算的。中年人看来真的演不了战斗片了。精彩度虽然一般，但故事底子是很好的
已经降低预期了，没想到还是大失所望，无血缘组合照搬《小偷家族》，生而不养又是《无人知晓》，可是枝裕和的这种自我复制恰恰少了对社会尖锐的发问，每个人设都是善良无害的，警察线和掮客线都温吞得像是白开水，买卖孩子的行为毫无推动力，最后硬生生营造出孩子被众多人疼爱的温馨感，甚至还提出堕胎不比弃养道德的奇怪观点，就好像是那种鼓励生育或是宣扬宗教的宣传片，演员也没什么发挥空间，宋康昊凭这个夺影帝还真是水分很大，裴斗娜演这么个可有可无的角色也很可惜。
一开场就是瓢泼大雨中的上坡路，差点以为走错寄生虫的片场。而前半段紧凑的节奏和多重悬疑的铺排，也让人联想到奉俊昊式的犯罪片，怀疑是枝导演是不是受到寄生虫的刺激太大了…只有回到最后的那些空镜和抒情段落，才是其得以辩识的作者性手法。可全片看下来，依然是个水土不服之作，甚至比真相还要更割裂的观感。
我愣是没看出来在饼叔这片里咋能突出到拿影帝，裴斗娜在半开的车窗上玩花瓣那个镜头有点意思
熟悉的是枝裕和风格，运镜、色彩、音乐和克制的氛围——虽然故事换了个发生地点，但也算南韩演技派顶配阵容了，因此电影在气质上也尽可能少了些违和感——其实按照这个剧本，年纪再往前10年的阿部宽，宫崎葵，安藤樱，福山雅治来围炉夜话，估计就对味了；// 这种小小的无伤大雅的违和感该怎么形容呢：日影的文艺感是温和深邃有时光来托重的——它可以下沉的相当彻底；而韩影的文艺感失去了些因文化积淀而产生的必然性——富五代和富二代的区别。
剧本和表演都没问题，不自然的地方是看的过程中一直觉得这应该是发生在日本的故事，镜头语言还是太是枝太日式了，虽然是东亚近邻，总觉得韩国人面对这种事不会处理得像日本人那样温和😢IU在我认知里一直是个很美丽的偶像歌手，没想到演技意外的踏实。裴女士老刑警了，余裕十足，不如干脆搞个跟李珠英的双女主探案剧，剧本让《秘密森林》的李秀妍来写就好～
好蠢的表演,大概只有粉丝才会为了那点可怜的情怀打高分吧.
809 伪中年危机题材，有趣的点在于，这个故事确实是为Nicolas Cage量身打造的，对于中年以上的观影者来说会有双重代入感。 不过正常的套路是“从头再来”，在这里变成了无厘头
一时之间不知道该为这个幻梦般的温情乌托邦感动还是质疑，是枝裕和把东京教父带到了韩国，把圣诞节雪夜置换成了大海和旅行，但宋康昊那种圣母的关怀却没让我干涩的眼珠子掉下一滴眼泪。
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