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.
宏观角度看多了，情感就淡漠了。如果放到以前看完大概会非常愤怒和悲伤。单论剧情波动明明很大，但拍的很平，导演的节奏和刻画重点有问题啊。演员演的很好，四大里最佳男主和最佳女配都有捞到。打五星只是因为电影里元山辞职的那段话：致那些得不到保护的人。我还想加上：致那些一直在保护大家的人。无论疫情还是地震。
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苏凌芳说，他好的时候，我不用在。即使不能陪你变老，也要守着你到老，至死方休的爱情，让人慕了……好像看懂了什么，又好像没有看懂，不过扯到干细胞，有点扯，怎么说呢，有点烂片的感觉，但是烂得很高级。
就是 宽叔太帅了。
这个电影其实题材还可以，卡司演技也都还可以。
哪天国内能多看到些社会类电影，社会就进步了。
很喜欢这部电影，拍得非常有小说的叙述感，沉浸感很高。标签的“爱情”其实我觉得不是很准确，这其实是一部关于“如何面对别离与死亡”的电影；甚至可以说是把临死之人（郭小鲁）在弥留之际眼前闪现的画面展现给了观众们。片中很有多一些细节，比如画幅的变化、飞机落地天地颠倒的镜头（去捷克留学正着变倒、院长病危回国倒着变正）、开车从青岛去北京的自述（影片开头和出车祸变植物人之前）等都是值得玩味的。
阿部演谁都是在演自己，女演员还在线，其他男演员只会发力不会收力，什么破玩玩儿
看完《浪客剑心》的佐藤健，这个简至没法看，太丧了；阿部宽还是一如既往的西装革履。
王朔：玩摇滚的形式大于内容一个个都是为了泡妞；演艺圈几乎没什么好东西；导演和导演老婆属于各玩各的；那谁拍的电影只有农村戏能看；那谁演的电影也就农村戏好看；新概念作家等于陪酒小姐。（王朔自己：天赋异禀在自己的领域年少成名游刃有余，天南海北地跑了一圈，最后白月光生了我和红颜知己的孩子？
震后创伤和社会问题写得又硬又泛，推理是不存在的，结局非常索然无味
开始觉得两个小时的剧情太长，看完后，两个小时哪够。整一个魔幻现实主义的题材，永生的最高境界是记忆永存，相较之下，生死似乎不是多么可怕的事情了
被封控在家将近三个月，那些发生的事就在身边
连环凶杀公务员，扶贫救弱职未当。
结合疫情有一些新思考，纵有再多智慧，自然面前的人类是何其渺小。
很喜欢这部电影，拍得非常有小说的叙述感，沉浸感很高。标签的“爱情”其实我觉得不是很准确，这其实是一部关于“如何面对别离与死亡”的电影；甚至可以说是把临死之人（郭小鲁）在弥留之际眼前闪现的画面展现给了观众们。片中很有多一些细节，比如画幅的变化、飞机落地天地颠倒的镜头（去捷克留学正着变倒、院长病危回国倒着变正）、开车从青岛去北京的自述（影片开头和出车祸变植物人之前）等都是值得玩味的。
凶杀案悬疑搭载创伤后遗症的片子，只能说搭配的并没有那么的成功。悬疑作为主线却刻意绑定了将观众视角带跑偏的人物，所有凶杀对于观众来说，都是希望能跟着剧情早一步推理出罪犯来的吧。无论是不是真正的本格推理。而灾后疗愈的部分，主人公为了所谓的复仇推翻了自己的美好，而且美好是复仇的人物给到自己的，这部分的崩塌也是比较差劲的写法。话说现在白夜行的格式实在是太多了，看的比较累。阿部宽的部分除了开篇的重合外，基本沦为了工具人，难以让观众感受到过多的共情来，仅作为悬疑部分的视角且被犯人视角横跳，比较难受和鸡肋。总之原小说基础还是可以的，但是剧本还需更多的斟酌和打磨。 主题不错，制作尤其是美术很好，及格分。
灾后积累的种种情绪一股脑都发泄出来，稍显混乱
只可惜，略微出彩的只有音乐。
影片的悬疑几乎不用猜了，其实一开始职业就暗示了。由于公务员的尸位素餐，导致了更多得不到保护的人的死亡，难道仅是一句按章办事就可以推卸责任的。公务员所谓的负责是对上头还是对人民的？如果人民得不到被保护的安全感，仇恨的杀戮四起，那国家存在的意义何在。
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