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.
看简介很有意思，加上又是日本本土票选的年度十大，可能期待过高了吧，看完觉得太普通，叙事，视听，都没能充分展现这个故事。
感觉表演痕迹太重 和drive my car 高下立见
文人相轻，影人更甚，我太喜欢看一切领域的野路子与学院派争锋了。Penelope的面容身段与这部电影里简洁又深邃的建筑美得难分高下。
是怎么做到，每一个分剧情的走向都在我预料之外。找到了观影以来第二喜欢的女性角色，我好爱她的洒脱和自由。
年度迷惑电影，请离开旬报十佳。在每年流水线量产的、翻来覆去那点破事儿的日式致郁家族电影里，这部都算是残次品。
最近看过的最好的一部喜剧。在角色设定上，强势疯狂的女导演与两个世界级男演员的特定组合已经形成对男子气概某种反讽（考虑到在电影界中普遍存在的男导演-女缪斯组合）。
总体走势一般，结局也难以惊喜，但是戏谑中还是在嘲讽。
好想被Penélope Cruz亲啊救命！
影迷向讽刺喜剧。讽刺了奥斯卡，讽刺了电影奖项，讽刺了电影观众，讽刺了流量派影星，也讽刺了学院派影星。
由一个事件引发人与人的恶意相向，最后随着时间的流逝，群体言论的罪恶转移方向，给当事者剩下了无尽的愧疚。一个人对一个人的愤怒，以及一个人对一个人的负罪，都是传递矛盾的途径。愤怒的终结是和解，负罪的终结是放弃，只有旁观者的嬉笑在不断地延续。而和解和放弃的结局则是美好事物出现的时刻，在最后提醒所有人个人的善良是多么珍贵。男主角一个具有强势性格的人，到最后的改变是通过一系列愧疚的冲击而获得的，显然非常有说服力。
挺有才华的，小讽刺谈不上高明、无非是对行业对资本对演员们，但几组对位关系把握得不错，故事讲得也引人入胜，把几个演员的表演都展现好了，这个导演还是蛮有前途的，有娱乐性也有真东西，三星半。
继晨间剧后，短时间内再一次看伊东苍小姑娘扮演心事重重的女子中生。吉田写群像依然有个个生存处境各各不乏亮点的细致处，整体叙事上始终有些不得要领。
在学校在家里都找不到认同感和价值感的女儿，在超市偷东西的时候，已经想要打破这种悲哀的生活了，车开过来的时候她没有闪躲，而是闭上了眼。然而她死后，还是没人能真正懂她，暴躁的父亲，被追究的可怜的超市小哥，大家都被卷入这个追责事件里，不断被追究到底是谁害死了女孩。是谁啊。是这个社会，是构成这个压抑社会的每一分子
和解为主题 原谅与道歉 都不简单
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店长的戏很薄弱，看点全在父亲身上，看他是如何从刚愎暴躁一步步柔软下来的。
一个带讽刺意味的故事，但展示的内容和尺度显得小儿科，讽刺的力度亦不大，全靠出色的演员撑着场子。两星。
看的过程心一直揪着，很难过，也很难受，比前些年看《海边的曼彻斯特》还难受，因为这部影片里所有的人都在道歉，都在忏悔，都背负了沉重的枷锁，所有的人都是受害者，所有的人也都在直接间接地加害别人，所有的人都是痛苦的，到底谁才有资格原谅别人？到底谁才应该被原谅？
#tiff2021# 《傑出公民》的姊妹篇，但沒那個驚艷，沒有期待的那麼好。。
和《永安镇故事集》可以对比很难比较，都是讽刺电影行业现状的，但两边电影市场差别太大了。这部更艺术和戏剧化一些，班德拉斯帅就算了，演技也磨练这么好，不给其他男演员活路啊！
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