有钱的侦探作家Andrew Wyke（劳伦斯·奥利弗 Laurence Olivier 饰）邀请了Milo Tindle（迈克尔·凯恩 Michael Caine）来到了他富丽堂皇的家中。起初他们相谈甚欢，亚洲然而当Andrew指出他知道Milo是Andrew妻子的外遇对象 时，亚洲整个气氛开始变得诡异，充满了矛盾。Milo也气定神闲的告诉Andrew，他知道Andrew和一个妓女的风流韵事，并且Andrew的妻子正准备和他离婚。两人针锋相对，唇枪舌剑，互不相让。Andrew提出要和Milo玩一个游戏，Milo答应了。故事的走向渐渐出乎意料......
回复 :山河、斌仔和高佬是死黨, 山河一直暗戀校花 Lisa, 但每每被男人婆 Mimi 破壞好事。這天三人躲在學校禮堂窺看女同學們跳健康舞, 卻被反鎖在貯物室中。無意中從一本陳舊的同學錄中發現了一封連鎖信, 三人遂借用來捉弄同班女生。其中肥妹被嚇得半死, 乖乖地遵照吩咐把錢放在墳地; Lisa 收到一封情辭懇切的信, 開始與一神秘男子約會; 連鎖信寄出後, 三名男子竟發現自己也收到了連鎖信。時學校連續發現血案, 先是......
回复 :A nurse finds herself in a dark and mysterious world.
回复 :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. SHIMON@lounge.moviecodec.com
