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回复 :劳伦斯·塔尔伯特（本尼西奥·德尔·托罗 Benicio Del Toro 饰）因幼时的悲痛记忆，离家多年并与家人鲜有联系。一日，在伦敦演出的劳伦斯被弟弟本杰明的未婚妻格温·康利弗（艾米莉·布朗特 Emily Blunt 饰）找到，康利弗告诉劳伦斯本杰明惨死的消息，并请求他回家乡黑色荒野进行调查。劳伦斯重新回到幼时生活的地方，此行他不仅想找出杀害弟弟的凶手，而且希望揭开母亲当年惨死父亲怀中的真相。记忆中宛如世外桃源般的黑色荒野因为接连有人受袭身亡而陷入恐慌，关于月圆之夜出现的怪物更是众说纷纭。调查中劳伦斯终于亲眼见到传说中的怪物——狼人，在追杀狼人的过程中，劳伦斯不幸被咬伤。伤愈之后的劳伦斯感到自己的体内开始产生变化，关于被狼人咬伤后将变成狼人的传说应验在了劳伦斯的身上……

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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