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.
虽然被亲友提前剧透了剧情，但在看时不可避免地发疯（bushi。橘真琴你真的好在乎遥啊我的天，为了他去神寺祈福加油，和他一起坐火车到终点站（可我嗑凛遥诶咋办）//京阿尼明显在各cp一碗水端平上花费了不少功夫，导致最后的成片节奏稀碎、遥和凛争吵和决裂生硬突兀。好在精致的画面（特别是水流的真实感和人物穿搭等）勉强拯救回来了。开头的vlog视角代入感太强已经尖叫了，T^T我的free大家庭一直都要这么开开心心哇。//情怀加持给4星，期待下篇的最终大团圆吧。
【C+】第一幕的时长就足以说明陀螺的马戏团情结，过分狂热，也过分庞杂，几乎没有给影像任何喘息的空间，视觉元素眼花缭乱的同时却又无法把握真正的视觉重心。而到了影片的后半段，却又显得过于简略，正如通灵仪式一样的空洞实质。镜头运动从未停歇，哪怕其内部蒙太奇已经完全，也执意要继续无用的运动。只有结局是恰到好处的收敛，宿命论的工整剧作下终于平静地凝视那张入魔的面孔。
京都动画出品，质量没的说，帅哥们好美型养眼
黑色片的成功“彩色化”，视效没得说。黑色片真的是古龙的宝藏啊，几乎部部都可以当古龙看。Cooper越老越辣看得狠人不淡定。
没看过老版还是吃故事这套的 塔罗牌最后一张猜到了倒吊人
感觉配乐换了个风格啊，真的赞，之前的配乐没有Rap还有女声，感觉女声让整个乐曲更加epic了甚至（不针对性别）
妥妥的两个半小时催眠片，没人物也没剧情，各种工具人走一遭，不知道为了啥也不知道演个啥，只能看卡司们切磋演技。非得让人把1947版的翻出来看一看不可。4
陀螺好撕裂啊，电影语言永远绝美充满想象力，故事本身一直干瘪无聊，有种胡叶新努力唱怒音的感觉，用尽吃奶的劲儿，却丝毫不动人。
史上最会端水运动番 雨露均沾 每一对都留了个念想
没看过老版的情况下，观感很好，库伯演习越来越厉害了。
新版导演表示并非复刻47版，而是小说的翻拍，所以新版比47版冗长饱满，每个骗术都揭示原理（反而有弄巧成拙之嫌），但男主害死Pete的动机没有47版交待的明确，另外心理医生这条线，47版比新版干脆利落，没有节外生枝出现另一条动机，大魔王的演技没有发挥好。47版演Zeena的布朗德尔没有柯莱特的“女巫”气质，但新版Zeena和男主缺乏互动，反倒没有47版纯粹利用更直截了当。还有新版倒车撞死Ezra贴身保镖这段处理的太夸张。总体上新版没有47版富于灵异色彩和神秘感。新版试图全面“破除迷信”，宗教味道基本归零，塔罗牌情节精简到几近没有，理性的表达了通灵都是鬼扯，包括用男主的俄狄浦斯情结和弑父心理解释他的行为动机，並且修正了47版牵强HE的做法，逻辑上很“圆满”。
破茧成蝶时的糟污，大厦将倾时的优雅，人物以一种阅后即焚用后即弃的决绝状态闪现纠缠。对陀螺而言，童话不是底色，而是血统，是故事开枝散叶时必须汲取的养分，也是落地生根时不得不背叛的枷锁。
一开始奔着大魔王小白兔二搭看的，绝对是被骗了。
看完我才发觉这是陀螺的片。让人em失望。
被低分的作品，德尔托罗的风格依旧犀利，有一点类似于邪恶版的远大前程，乡村小子学了一堆技巧，贪婪的他想要的更多，结果惹了不该惹的人，做了不该做的事情。
最初马戏团的无聊的情节对比去了大城市刺激的情节 看到结局才发觉马戏团才是最美好的时光 美术也是马戏团部分做得最好 大城市的部分奢华又空洞
吉尔莫德尔托罗自从《潘神的迷宫》后再无佳作，在我看来《水形物语》的获奖纯属莫名其妙，《三块广告牌》输得很冤。
挺好的，有一种今天的美国电影里越来越稀有的、“不为了什么”的好。
一个看尽苦难不幸但看不到自己的自以为是走火入魔的男人的短暂“巅峰”人生故事。故事展开理所当然了些，不过马戏团的部分很不错。
野心家的得与失？都2022年了，怎么还在拍如此陈词滥调的故事和人物形象啊，哪怕大魔王与库伯角色互换，搞个女版《玉面情魔》都要更好看吧，这样还能看到大魔王与小白兔再次搞姬！
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