丛林Afflicted with a mysterious disease after surviving an overdose, a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her personal demons but instead discovers a real one.
丛林Afflicted with a mysterious disease after surviving an overdose, a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her personal demons but instead discovers a real one.
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 :1988年生的两位女生微笑和河恩一起度过了幼年时期,在成长为大人的过程中经历了颇为曲折的关系。两人平静的世界在10多岁的时候,随着河恩和同班同学振宇开始初恋,出现了细微的裂痕。自由奔放的微笑去城市追求冒险的生活,河恩则留在故乡过安定的生活,两个人就这样渐行渐远……
回复 :鲍威尔(安东尼•霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰)是一位专门研究黑猩猩的人类学家,他在卢旺达长期观察观察当地黑猩猩的活动。然而两年前,这位性情温和的学者突然性情大变,杀了两位当地的森林管理员以及伤害了多名管理员后神秘失踪。如今,他终于被逮捕归案,关押在美国高度戒严的精神病监狱。年轻的精神病专家卡尔特(小库珀•古丁 Cuba Gooding 饰)意图揭开鲍威尔精神失常之谜而一举成名,于是他深入到监狱直接与鲍威尔进行对话。鲍威尔一开始对这位访客充满敌意,身为人类学家的他在卡尔特面前一点也不落下风。随着对话的逐渐深入,卡尔特渐渐了解到了事件真相:鲍威尔杀害的管理员其实是偷猎大猩猩的恶棍……