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.
褒誉过渡，马特达蒙和本瘦了倒是真的，故事内容很一般，三段罗生门的表述区别也不大，甚至谈不上罗生门，我一直不喜欢本的面瘫脸。
影片的视角始终是平等的，并未着重放大和夸张。片中对强奸犯的尸体扒光当街倒吊的凌辱，也不能片面解读为女权主义的某种胜利，那样反倒是落入父权制的认知陷阱，这不过是对一个曾做出恶行的人进行了相应的惩罚，在下定义之间，这个角色首先作为人而存在。Margerite的视角不是影片被划分为女权电影的绝对条件，如果所有包含女性叙事角度的作品都能被叫女权电影，那么只能说平权之路更加任重道远，父权制语境下女性话语权的缺失仍是大问题。
兩個半小時不覺得沈悶，縱使故事講了三次，再看第三個故事的時候還是聚精會神。女性真的是最堅強的存在，無論如何都被看低和拿來作為籌碼，反抗需要莫大的勇氣。女主長髮好美，最近真的很常見Adam Driver。
【云13.9G】质感有 故事和叙事方式挺无聊的
罗生门式的讲述，决斗将女人的无力、矛盾与绝望推向高潮
老雷的野心再度回顾，这个题材他驾轻就熟。好演员们之间的戏剧张力十足。
长久以来女性作为生育工具被男性当作附属品，我猜幸好女性还可以生育，否则就会变成猪圈狗窝里的生物，仅仅在发泄兽欲时被需要。她们只是个洞，恰好容纳魔鬼的折磨，知道这千百年的历史，才能知道祈求爱情是女性的一厢情愿。雷德利始终的忠实追随者。
哪怕不用罗生门就战争场面的一瞥都好看得要命，last duel一幕的紧张感劈头盖脸。本爹的4P床戏据说是自己加上去的我真的要笑死。当然最搞笑的难道不是司机插足本达蒙吗。雷爷不比你我都懂。这个戏每个人的表演都很耐品。朱迪科默最后的那个look好像奥菲利亚再世美美美。
相比于罗生门较为均衡的话语分配，老雷这次对于特定一方太过偏袒。
1.MD狗za种！Love你MLGB，强奸是LOVE，还尼玛的忏悔！GB五秒男！
D / 天呐，这真的是2021年该被拍出来的电影吗，花那么多投资整那么多服化道是为了什么，同为去年为数不多历史题材的电影，和这片比起来「圣母」是不是过于前卫了点。
所以最重要的是，女性要争夺叙事权。要不然记忆、经历和历史将由他们任意投射。
最后的的决斗有点意思，一切道具服装要为剧情服务，否则就是画蛇添足，比如剧终的女性主义观点。
2021年第28部。这部电影的观影体验可以分为两部分：前半部分“哟，不错，四星有了”；后半部分“wocao，五星！”。有人说这片模仿罗生门，其实并不是，影片不是要讲一个事实的不同表述，而是要展现女性自己的样子，以及在不同男性眼中的样子。在丈夫眼中她是温柔的样子，在施暴者眼中她是风情万种的样子，但都是工具人的角色。而她自己眼中的样子，没被看到过，也无人关心。缺点：最大的问题是镜头语言对当事人的感受表达不充分，不同的人竟然有同样的观看视角；另外我们都在夸女性视角，但女性视角是否也有扭曲有偏差呢；对照史实，电影丑化了丈夫的动机，这是否也算是女性主义下对男人的不平等呢；
大历史拍小电影，怎么看都觉得高开低走，想拍出骑士道的另一面，又不够到位。想拍女性的命运，又过于专注在一个案件，格局没打开。
这不是罗生门，是屁股决定脑袋。马特达蒙演这样一介武夫气质上距离稍远，倒是本阿弗莱克演的皮耶差点没认出来。
很简单的故事，看似用《罗生门》式三人视角讲故事，其实三段更多是互相补充，更像《金刚川》那种一件事讲三遍的弱智做法。三段最大不同是，情夫眼里是勾搭成奸后一次被拒绝的性，而女主的立场就是单纯的强奸。这故事本有两个点，一是达蒙拼死维护（包含妻子的）名誉，二是女主声张女性权利，但本片更偏重后者，导致结构不均衡且内容单薄，另外女主观察家里母马遭遇后若有若无的感触，她后面对权贵的那些发言，基本已经是个现代女性的形象了，雷德利的古装片基本都借古讽今表达偏保守的政治立场，这次却响应较极端的女权，不知为何迈这么大步子——毕竟强奸本身不是个好的议题立足点，强不强奸还是看证据，而不是听特定性别的人类讲故事。电影虽表达了对女性权利的关注，但虐马较狠，连印度电影人都知道用CG代替真动物，雷德利有生之年是蹭不上动物权利了
来来来，我们一起来当法国人，你叫尚来我叫皮耶
一边看一边想天呐让这两个男的按顺序都死了吧，果然真的都死了，令人满意。
一场决斗的取胜，书写了英雄的荣誉史话，巩固了男权的文明堡垒，同时泥埋了女性的真实呼喊。
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