尹熙中
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: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
谢晖
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:自然是伟大的,我们应当对自然充满了敬畏。在人熊山,一直有着人熊的传说,他们昼伏夜出,捕食各种动物为食,人熊山的很多村民的祖先都有过和人熊搏斗的经历,有的人说其实就是狗熊,有的人说是原始巨猿。但更多的现代人只是听见人熊的嚎叫,却没有真正见过。尤其在月圆之夜,人熊的嚎叫能传出好几公里之远。当年日本731部队溃败前夜,匆忙在人熊山销毁各种基因试液和细菌武器。令人奇怪的是,销毁基因试液的小分队却没有一个人回来,就这样无声无息的消失了。日本战败后,这片森林就再也没有人进去过。后来得益于政府封山育林政策,人熊山就逐步淡出了人们的视野,渐渐消失在人们的记忆中。一个北京的地产集团为了开发绿氧别墅项目,派5人考察组开进了人熊山考察选址。但是谁也没有想到,这一举动,打乱了人熊山人与人熊互不侵犯的默契,上演了一场异常惨烈的变异生物灾难......