17岁的泰勒趁暑假去加州海滩边边打零工边体验加州生活,日本在那里和美丽女孩艾莉相遇并交往。在一次派对上,日本泰勒与艾莉发生矛盾,此时却遇上了另一个女孩霍莉,两人发生短暂情缘。泰勒随后与艾莉和好如初,然而却在学校又遇到了霍莉,更没料到接下来发生了一系列不愉快的事情,随着事态的发展,泰勒发现霍莉是个很危险的女孩......
17岁的泰勒趁暑假去加州海滩边边打零工边体验加州生活,日本在那里和美丽女孩艾莉相遇并交往。在一次派对上,日本泰勒与艾莉发生矛盾,此时却遇上了另一个女孩霍莉,两人发生短暂情缘。泰勒随后与艾莉和好如初,然而却在学校又遇到了霍莉,更没料到接下来发生了一系列不愉快的事情,随着事态的发展,泰勒发现霍莉是个很危险的女孩......
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 :影片改编自同名小说,讲述一个电影编剧(贝肯饰)带着老婆(塞弗里德饰)、孩子在阿尔卑斯山附近潜心创作,但一些离奇事件却不断发生。
回复 :本片改编于臭名昭著的斯莫尔斯小岛事件。Thomas Howell和Thomas Griffith被派往位于斯莫尔斯小岛的灯塔驻守,这里与世隔绝,四周环绕着冰冷刺骨的海水,起初一切还算顺利,然而风暴的降临摧毁了一切,暴风雨夹杂着冰冷的海水撕扯着二人的身体和心灵,面对无止境的摧残,他们不得不做出选择,他 们祈求上苍眷顾,缺无法面对心底最深的恐惧。这是一部关于死亡的故事,疯狂与绝望无尽的涌出,人性深处的黑暗在这里释放……