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.
事实上是围绕着怎样才是孩子最好的归宿为命题，让我第一次对堕胎有了动摇，但看到后面尽管大家都梦幻一般地好，但还是早点堕胎更好吧！喜欢孩子说再去洗车，小细节的调度还是很是枝～
分了好几天磕磕绊绊地看完，期间看完了N个cut，n部电影，太破碎了。
11/6/2022 @ 電影中心。那些旅途中遇到的小確幸、分鏡和音樂等還是能讓我看到是出自是枝裕和，關燈感謝一幕有被打動一下，但完場後回想一下把販賣人口/棄嬰故事全員聖人化真的恰當嗎？(天台那幕爭辯真的黑人問號….)另外這個童話ending看到我一臉茫然….演員方面宋康昊正常發揮，姜楝元有驚喜，IU還真的以為黑臉=演技？
凯奇的这部演自己的电影跟尚格云顿演自己的《尚格云顿》可是说正好截然相反。不谈论套路化的部分设置，老尚在整部电影里面都是颓废落寞带着比利时特有的忧郁，在电影不断的进行中消解作为动作片巨星的人设，自我嘲讽，用臆想与现实的强烈对比反差来突出自己只是个凡人。而凯奇这个同样落寞的自己，电影里突出的是他对电影的热爱对演员职业的热情，哈维这个角色就强烈的催化剂，让凯奇内心的激情喷涌而出。凯奇与哈维飙戏跳崖的疯狂宛如赫尔佐格排《陆上行舟》般，这种激情是电影人保证自己职业长久发展的良药，这部电影可以说宣告了凯奇依旧拥有着再造自己演员生涯的野心，未来凯奇一定会重新贡献出优秀的电影。
遗弃婴儿是犯罪，那堕胎是不是合法的扼杀生命，又是一个双刃的伪命题，却没能掀起更大的水花，反而看得昏昏欲睡。
看完预告片后满怀期待，看完正片后稍许失落，这个时代变了，不是20年前那个各行各业皆是天才的年代，那个时候导演，剧本，演员皆天才，球星，歌手，漫画家一个个的才华横溢，现在再来看，全是扶不起的阿斗，电影行业如此，其他行业都一个怂样！
居家办公，带薪看电影，真爽！！！
这样的组合，这样的成效，确实给人草台班子的感觉。
挺好笑的哈哈哈哈，竟然展现了昨天的新闻热点LSD，加一星吧
罪恶的事情却拍的这么温情，了解一下我们的计划生育，呵呵
比不上《小偷家族》，但仍值得一看。依旧是没有血缘关系的几个人聚在一起，彼此汲取着点滴温暖。整体节奏是平淡了点，很像生活中的那种平淡。回过神来发现探讨的是关于弃婴这样一个严肃的社会话题，每个角色都代表着一种切入的视角，有时包容，有时又矛盾。最喜欢洗车场和摩天轮的两场戏，都是封闭空间里不经意地感受到那种片刻的幸福瞬间。
依然是水准之作。这个太童话的故事就是对片中IU随口编造的报道的反思，那串文字冰冷，充满着谴责意味，是枝裕和正是想写出人的复杂性与生活的真相，从而纠正大众对掮客、弃婴者惯性般的偏见与蔑视。裴斗娜警察一角正是大众的缩影，所以片名最终会落在她的身上，一个“审判者”在践行正义的过程中越来越像“掮客”，她的转变过程寄放着是枝裕和善良的愿望。片中细节太丰富了，比如IU在厕所倒掉奶水、和见到别人喂养自己孩子时涨奶（心痛）的反应，以冰山一角的方式呈现隐藏母性的艰难与苦楚。是枝裕和还是老道的。
打着喜剧幌子的迷影片，就挺可爱的www又有谁不想要一串"A really elegant string-of-pearls configuration"呢？
#Cannes2022 哇就活生生把我气笑了就, thank you for being born是我听过最可笑的台词，“与其让一个孩子痛苦的活着这个世界上为什么要把他生下来”，被美化的选择和结局就算对于电影来说也太理想化了。我看不到一行五人的情感连接，两人所谓的摩天轮感情线也莫名其妙。IU的表演就像是一直在找美丽角度拍MV，我看不到character arc的变化。
戏中戏中戏，我演我自己。稍微有点乱但应该比凯奇近年大部分电影好多了。加半星情怀分啦。
概念还行,但组织得挺差,既没啥bromance也没啥剧情推进
抛弃与重拾的故事，但是叙事铺得太开，导致切口不深。所以同样是以临时家庭为单位、以弃婴为线索，东京教父就比掮客的人物更饱满也更具张力
3，标题翻得文绉绉的，直接用『人贩子』不是更好？
《真相》的硬伤还只是亚欧文化的不兼容，到了《掮客》已经是与真实世界相比过于真空的市井童话了，只剩下底层人浮于表面的惺惺相惜。看来是枝裕和不止要回日本，还要回归现实世界。
本质上就是个神经病喜剧 想必能给凯奇的粉丝带来不少乐趣
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