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.
看见朋友圈推荐，火速下载看了，把各种素材用伪纪录片串联起来，讽刺从头到尾，太牛了，哈哈哈哈哈哈哈 除了中间环保对中国的部分有问题，其它都很赞！
现在非常需要有个平台或者媒介，在每年年底的时候给我这样子总结一遍，不然真是啥也记不住啊
男主帅女主美！徐贤真的很适合白衬衫 说实话最后那里bobo好甜！
年年似年年，年年盼年年
去年的第一集还是很好玩的，毕竟新鲜。今年的梗用同样的套路玩一遍就好无聊。。。拜托明年别玩了。
仿佛跟去年没啥两样，一度怀疑已经看过了... 可怕。螺旋上升变原地转圈了哈哈哈哈这个世界 T T....
每一件事情都让人绝望，阴阳怪气火力全开也只是在绝望中的唯一应对方式了，唉，2020糟透了，2021也很烂，2022也不会好……
美國的2021。本質上同《不要抬頭》撞橋了。
然后就是里面提到的很多事我真的没啥印象，就仿佛不是生活在同个世界...
我原以为2020年就很糟了，没想到2021年还是那么糟，现在看来，2022年只会更糟糕。
理查德·布兰森第一个上太空的无用之人，哈哈哈，适合吃饭的时候看，时长讲究不多不少正好一个小时。
从电影上看我更喜欢dont look up ，从喜剧博我一笑看我更喜欢这个，不太cinema ，像金凯瑞的脱口秀
这部并不好看的喜剧比我的2021年还有趣 sad
Netflix持续整活，美国人不觉醒不罢休
这是个测试题：你觉得哪一方的人说的超可笑？哪一方的人说的似乎有点道理？恭喜你，可以通过这个判断自己属于哪一方（手动狗头）
great，用俗套的英式幽默讲点美国年度总结，好像那就是世界总结一样。
每年来一集吧，目前看来以后几年的素材只会越来越多……
愈发荒诞的年度所发生的事，总以为已经发生了好久，却原来仅仅一年。太阳底下，长城内外，都没有什么新鲜事，只有更加跌破的底线。看这个就觉得网飞的立场还是站得蛮理性的，如果放在别抬头里面，这种媒体分分钟就失去流量了。
要是Weekend Update也能做个类似形式的年度总结，可能更有趣。
有些地方还挺好笑，气候大会处不忘记黑中印，工业化的末班车，印度也不知道有机会赶上不
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