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.
就真的没必要翻拍 ┓(´∀`)┏ 以及，别靠近男人，会变得不幸。
1.埃及风光、度假风情、穿搭氛围拉满 2.节奏是蛮有问题的，前期铺垫太长，结局推理太短，结束好突兀啊 3.邮轮转到神庙的时候，过于震惊的美。
充斥着自我满足的加戏和政治正确的意淫，本该好好处理的情节则四分五裂，添油加醋，难以自圆其说。啃泥对阿加莎完全误解之处正在于自作聪明地改掉最后一个死者拆散了那对旁观爱之悲剧后获得新生的情侣。波洛的故事从来不完全关于他，侦探只是折射万象，照出真相的镜子。可惜原作对人物的温柔在此变成了啃泥无尽的自恋。希望他老人家早日放过阿加莎并停止浪费胶片。
能根据海鸟来判断风向，也能根据颜料推断凶手。欲望是如此可怕，爱情是如此危险。沙漠中浪漫的尼罗河有着致命的诱惑，引诱铤而走险的亡命鸳鸯在轮渡上表演。真相又是如此明晰，船上没有复仇的旧爱，只有贪婪的演员。波洛自然看得懂一切，用胡子当面具遮盖了伤口这么多年，世间情事，大抵都浪漫而凶险。
大为震惊，这是自2019年烧女图后，我再一次在大银幕见到女同性恋，久违了。可能是因为实在突发奇想且毫无热度所以侥幸存活，成为内地大银幕第一对有名份的女同。
肯尼斯布拉纳以强烈的个人风格，以爱为主题，重新讲述了这起谋杀案。从小说中人性复杂的群像，对于女性角色丰富情感细腻的刻画，转为把焦点落在"爱如何令人堕落成魔"。用苦涩的爵士乐，浓郁狂野的视觉效果，烘托了爱与死的激情与恐惧。但是，林内特这个角色被弱化，使得整个故事失去了原本的魅力。
所以 就当尼罗河旅游观光片来看看 满屏金色阳光照在狮身人面像上时 对自由的向往 呼之欲出
2.5。前半段节奏太慢、剧情又无聊直接睡过去两三次，直到推石头那儿才被惊醒看下去。原著中强烈的悬疑氛围很少，导演添加的元素太多——资本入侵、种族、同性…“全都压上，票房保证”。可如此一来什么都没了。大银幕上几位女主演看起来倒是很漂亮，几段舞蹈场面妩媚妖娆，“无床胜有床”。最后的确改了不如不改，拍了不如不拍。
改到我差點沒想起來原著是什麼樣。艾米錘和加多在公共場合play我想插我雙眼
第一次看恐怖片这么好笑，除了画面很cult外剧情好迷惑
看电影，才知道金字塔段的尼罗河到底是什么样的，那么辽阔与简洁。
虽然将原著里的二次行凶分成了三次，导致波洛的后续行为产生了诸多不合理的bug，但对于初次观看这个故事的观众，不细想的情况下也不会影响观感。其次就是最后的推理过程实在过于仓促，节奏的把控算不上高明。
第三个故事简直松果体附身！我的san值狂掉啊！第二个故事的氛围感 第一个故事的致敬 反而更喜欢第4个较为搞笑又怪诞的故事
原版看完让我不敢坐船
盖尔·加朵美绝了，豆瓣评分也低得有点莫名。尼罗河畔的所有风景都让我甚为怀念19年底在埃及的近半个月回忆，每一处场景都记忆犹新。
为我前担，已经沉沦到尼罗河底的艾米汉莫加一星，其他的，全是为19年春天我看见的开罗、阿斯旺、卡纳克、丹达拉、吉萨大金字塔，为我曾顺流而下的那条世界上最清澈的大河……
我只想说妈的 Armie Hammer 后台真的硬。
真是加了好多莫名其妙对剧情毫无帮助的导演的“小巧思”，实际上让电影变得冗长无聊且缺乏重点
23.03.2022 | @ Regal Majestic | 感觉看了三个小时。前面好闷啊！不过这个波洛还不错。
Kenneth Branagh is on my blacklist.
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