安七炫吴建豪
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:阴暗压抑的工业小镇，刺耳的机器轰鸣噪音。亨利•斯班瑟（杰克·南斯饰）初次拜访女友家，然而目睹到的却是一个怪异扭曲的家庭，霸道的母亲、无能的父亲、植物人似的祖母以及笨拙的女儿。而更令亨利感到无助的是，他被迫与女友结婚。一夜之间，亨利成为一个畸形儿的父亲。相貌丑陋恶心的婴儿让亨利异常恐惧焦虑，也让新婚妻子因忍受不了婴儿的啼哭而半夜出逃。亨利再也忍受不了如此不堪的生活和夜夜噩梦，他最终亲手用剪刀肢解掉了这个畸形的早产儿。由美国电影新浪潮运动旗手大卫·林奇创作的长片处女作《橡皮头》，历时五年完成。一经公映，便以强烈的前卫诡异风格挑战了当时还相当传统和保守的电影界。在情绪化的摇晃镜头与随处可见的阴暗腐败中，大卫·林奇构筑出了一幅扭曲病态的家庭人物关系，赤裸裸地破开人性的阴暗面。这种运用弗洛伊德心理分析，来剖析人类精神世界中焦灼郁闷的手法，加上极具视觉冲击力的影像，让大卫·林奇在影坛独树一帜。
高瑞欣
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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
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