神经科专家库克维奇医师在一简陋的医院准备进行划时代的脑切除手术,却对院内粗糙的设备感到困挠。来自新奥尔良的贵妇维纳波夫人有意赞助库可维奇任职的医院,但库可维奇必须对其侄女凯瑟琳进行脑切除的手术,以治疗她的精神崩溃症状。饱受折磨的凯瑟琳会透露出什么惊人之语?维纳波夫人和凯瑟琳又为何有心结?
神经科专家库克维奇医师在一简陋的医院准备进行划时代的脑切除手术,却对院内粗糙的设备感到困挠。来自新奥尔良的贵妇维纳波夫人有意赞助库可维奇任职的医院,但库可维奇必须对其侄女凯瑟琳进行脑切除的手术,以治疗她的精神崩溃症状。饱受折磨的凯瑟琳会透露出什么惊人之语?维纳波夫人和凯瑟琳又为何有心结?
回复 :隐居且有争议的作家布鲁斯·科伯恩(BruceCogburn)被一位痴迷的粉丝从隐藏中拉了出来,迫使这位小说家面对他认为可以逃离的过去,并解释他畅销书几十年前引发的事件。科伯恩寻找谁是他所遭遇的操纵和精神折磨的幕后黑手,导致了一场充满恐惧和危险的情感过山车之旅,在那里,事情并不总是像表面上那样清楚,过去的行为可能会产生可怕的后果。
回复 :夏洛特(凯茜·贝茨 Kathy Bates 饰)和米雪儿(米歇尔·菲弗 Michelle Pfeiffer 饰)是多年老友、闺蜜,她们曾经是裙下臣甚众的交际花,如今年华老去,只能在华屋美食间消磨时光回忆往事。夏洛特的儿子谢利(鲁伯特·弗兰德 Rupert Friend 饰)十九岁了,她很为儿子沉迷酒色担忧,因此把他交给米雪儿管教。虽然一个徐娘半老,一个风华正茂,但两人不可避免地相爱了,米雪儿成了谢利的导师和情人,他亲昵地叫她“诺诺”,米雪儿为自己多年没体会过的炽热情感而害怕,因这毕竟是一段禁忌的关系。谢利不可避免要走入婚姻,娶了同龄的富家女孩,但和米雪儿的关系却没办法轻易了断……影片根据法国作家科莱特的同名小说改编。
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