尹姝贻
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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
费玉清
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:40年代的美国,“教父”维托·唐·柯里昂(马龙·白兰度 饰)是黑手党柯里昂家族的首领,带领家族从事非法的勾当,但同时他也是许多弱小平民的保护神,深得人们爱戴。因为拒绝了毒枭索洛索的毒品交易要求,柯里昂家族和纽约其他几个黑手党家族的矛盾激化。圣诞前夕,索洛索劫持了“教 父”的参谋汤姆,并派人暗杀“教父”;因为内奸的出卖,“教父”的大儿子逊尼被仇家杀害;小儿子麦克(阿尔·帕西诺 饰)也被卷了进来,失去爱妻。黑手党家族之间的矛盾越来越白热化。年老的“教父”面对丧子之痛怎样统领全局?黑手党之间的仇杀如何落幕?谁是家族的内奸?谁又能够成为新一代的“教父”?血雨腥风和温情脉脉,在这部里程碑式的黑帮史诗巨片里真实上演。©豆瓣