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.
其实一直对这帮子学院派没什么太高期待，甚至刚开始看的时候觉得这布景这选角这味也太阿莫多瓦了，乃们西班牙是不是没别人了，但后边慢慢开始渐入佳境，台词很有趣，结尾也很喜欢，真的不错，年度十佳预定了
#2021威尼斯主竞赛# 班德拉斯的表演空间太大了。
3.5。设计的过于刻意而且节奏平淡。手法重复多次
2.5，讽刺的内容完全可以讽刺这部片子的制作。
Mariano Cohn、Gastón Duprat。競爭，電影，劇中劇，內外對照，人類生活動力。交互感染，三個主要角色互相對彼此生活模式的模仿。電影只是一座橋。潘妮洛普克魯茲飾演的導演貌似觸犯每一條會被 metoo 的界線（性暗示、破壞私人物品、精神折磨），但行為程度又讓她看起來並不太會被針對。最後的對望鏡頭效果不錯，結局好像略略有點添足。
西语世界导演特有的画面语言下 肆无忌惮和全然不在乎地调侃与讽刺 辅之以意料之中却又意料之外的反转与呼应 是对后疫情时代电影行业的批判 亦是一针麻药无法缓解的痛楚 或许是 爱之弥深
非常现实的故事，也非常克制的表现手法，影片最后的处理也算是恰达好处。但还是觉得作者想放进去的东西太多，让影片想表达的主旨太满，观后感觉有些五味杂陈，或者说是有点如鲠在喉的感觉。如果故事主线单纯一些，只是聚焦在父亲身上，表现父亲在痛惜爱女过世后逐步实现与自己，与世界的和解，或许会更能让人有所触动；又或者以平均主义结构描述一场本不该发生的事故为关联的每个人带来的冲击与改变，以群像视角展现人生的无奈，为观众带来感叹与唏嘘，也比现在整体平衡感缺失更好些吧。但总的来说还是一部视角独特的现实主义好作品，父亲的角色表演尤其给力，值得推荐。
故事走向卡的比较准，人物之间情绪相互影响和变化让人信服，没有太冒进的行为和转变。
影评里有把我想说的都说了 btw 女导演➕女演员都是我的矩向救命啊
旬报十佳。成年人的崩溃往往就在一瞬间。感觉古田新太或者松坂桃李都有资格拿个男主角奖。这是“岛中之岛”的故事，也和日本人的国民性格密切相关。事件中没有绝对意义上的“坏人”，每个人都是从自己的立场出发，在传统媒体和社交媒体的推波助澜下，愤怒得找不到出口，最终达至连锁性的互害。是伪善？是自我满足？其实只是为了与自己和解。
这个行业内早已经过度自我暴露，没有秘辛，辛酸欢乐连吃瓜群众都知道，内幕故事拍得越姿态严肃就越平庸自恋。海报就完全剧透了三个主演的角色故事和表演，毫无惊喜，女主的表演甚至几度流于轻浮。如果坚持行为艺术，把戏中戏干脆拍成两部电影，这部作为纪录片，那么画面的精致和两部电影彩蛋式互相呼应的丝丝入扣，会成为最好看、最有嚼头也最有噱头的纪录片。可剧情式戏中戏？算了，靠疫情拿个友情分吧
好看！介于文艺和商业之间，非常电影节的节奏，流畅精彩！
影片中小女孩因偷东西，被超市年青男老板追赶，在逃跑中不幸被大卡车碾压致死，这一事件而展开追责，并随着媒体的曝光事件逐渐升级，小女孩父亲展开调查及讨伐，在加上媒体重复报道，导致超市倒闭，走投无路下超市老板选择自杀，兴亏被人及时救下。
故事不错，观感一般，人们已经失去去了解事实和真相的耐心了
深深感受到每个人的无力，花音，她爸爸，店长，员工，撞人的女孩子，女孩子的妈妈。如果是我在生活遇到这样的事情，会怎样处理呢？
人与人 人与这个世界 都可以以用毁灭达成和解 人与自我该用何种方式达成和解 ps：日本影人的时空观念和声音观念延续的真特么的牛逼
卷入事件当中的每个个体都需要付出极大的努力，甚至生命的代价，才能够摆脱沉重的负罪感，得到心灵的救赎。唯独吃人血馒头的现代媒体从来不会自我反思。
女孩对于世人犹如一张张卷子上的评语，不太了解，没什么印象。事实上不止是她的同学们，每一个人都不曾真正了解过女孩，无论生前还是死后的她都同样孤独。这种孤独源自于社会中人们的愈渐冷漠－－不追求人道主义与人文关怀，转而为了追逐利益放弃情感需要。媒体竭尽全力的压榨着女孩死亡事件的剩余价值，为了博取关注度不惜破坏他人的人生；父亲看似是在为女儿讨回公道，实际上只是借机为自己的情绪找到一个突破口，却从不曾真正了解关心过女儿。人人都想维持自己绝对正确的地位，而站在错误领地的人，仿佛只能成为众矢之的，唯有以死谢罪。可是所谓的对与错并不能化解一切，唯有理解包容和爱才能。当父亲终于打开女儿尘封的画，开始慢慢试图了解她时，也就同时展开了与世界和自我的和解。
深深感受到每个人的无力，花音，她爸爸，店长，员工，撞人的女孩子，女孩子的妈妈。如果是我在生活遇到这样的事情，会怎样处理呢？
【2.0】只能说宁缺毋滥，市面上相近的题材、相似的剧情走向的电影实在太多了，这部并没有为观众带来任何新的思考。另外必须得吐槽一下，这片的人物心理未免都太极端了些，动不动就走到“羞愧自杀”的地步，愧死机制简直直逼《来自新世界》。
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